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Approved 10/16/19 <br /> 109 Nish Trivedi: Durham County has an Engage Durham website if you want to participate in their transit plan update. <br /> 110 <br /> 111 Jenn Sykes: Some of the insurance companies that got these contracts to administer Medicaid are doing grants to help <br /> 112 county governments and transit. The concept is called social determinants of health and it is about getting people to and <br /> 113 from appointments and making sure they have housing stability. These are some funding sources you might want to start <br /> 114 paying attention to. You may want to look at insurance companies to get grant money at the moment. <br /> 115 <br /> 116 Theo Letman: We are going to provide services in the county, but how we do it is going to be the mess for us. <br /> 117 <br /> 118 Jenn Sykes: I think there is a piece in Medicaid where they are encouraged to ask each patient if they have access to <br /> 119 transportation and then move that forward. <br /> 120 <br /> 121 Theo Letman: I've heard some counties say they may even stop doing Medicaid transportation due to the confusion. <br /> 122 <br /> 123 Heidi Perry: Will the new Sprinter-type vans have bike racks on them? <br /> 124 <br /> 125 Theo Letman: Yes. <br /> 126 <br /> 127 Lisa Berley: About how many seats will be in the new line? Let's say there isn't a wheelchair on there that particular day. <br /> 128 <br /> 129 Theo Letman: It's probably going to get up to 15 people. <br /> 130 <br /> 131 AGENDA ITEM 413: OUT MOBILITY ON DEMAND(ALLYSON COLTRANE,THEO LETMAN)— <br /> 132 Allyson Coltrane and Theo Letman gave a presentation and updates. <br /> 133 <br /> 134 Heidi Perry: Will this service be available to anyone? <br /> 135 <br /> 136 Theo Letman: Yes. It will be open to the public. <br /> 137 <br /> 138 Heidi Perry: Is Orange County contracting with private citizens to provide the service or are we hiring full-time drivers; how <br /> 139 will it work? <br /> 140 <br /> 141 Theo Letman: My plan is to hire part-time drivers like Uber and Lyft. They will go through safety training class to teach them <br /> 142 Orange County's way of providing customer services. This will be an augmented training process. We will conduct <br /> 143 background checks and they will work for Orange County transportation services on a part-time basis. <br /> 144 <br /> 145 David Laudicina: Have you thought about a monthly pass? <br /> 146 <br /> 147 Theo Letman: I don't know yet. I think it may be more of a debit kind of situation. <br /> 148 <br /> 149 Beverly Scurry: I see on the survey that you have a 5 to 8 option; is that as late as you will operate? <br /> 150 <br /> 151 Theo Letman: We are still planning with TransLok. We are looking at perhaps 5 to 9 during the weekday and on Saturday. <br /> 152 A consistent theme has been transit services on Saturday. <br /> 153 <br /> 154 Beverly Scurry: How are you promoting the survey? <br /> 155 <br /> 156 Allyson Coltrane: We have contacted the main communicators and the communication group to send it out, but I can <br /> 157 definitely forward to everyone here if they want to relate it back to anyone else. We will probably do a bigger push to get it <br /> 158 out there sometime next week. <br /> 159 <br /> 160 Erik Broo: The vehicles will be provided by our County for these part-time drivers; is that correct? <br /> 161 <br /> 162 Theo Letman: The vehicle procurements that I described will start with five vans. <br /> 3 <br />