AGENDA ITEM
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Polk County Community Transportation Coordinator (CTC) Redesignation Process
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PRESENTER
Julia Davis, Polk TPO
SUMMARY
Every five years, the TPO must go through a process to recommend a single Community Transportation Coordinator, (CTC) to the Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged. This is usually handled through a competitive procurement process, for example, an RFP. However, when the existing CTC is a governmental agency, like Lakeland Area Mass Transit District (LAMTD), /d/b/a Citrus Connection, then the process is carried out more informally. Over the next several months, the TPO, in cooperation with LAMTD and the TD Local Coordinating Board, will carry out several steps to produce a local recommendation for LAMTD to be re-designated as the Community Transportation Coordinator for Polk.
There is a designated Community Transportation Coordinator in every County in Florida. The role of the CTC is to manage funding and provide trips, and to arrange transportation for eligible passengers to get to non-emergency medical appointments, to the grocery store, to employment opportunities, and to other life-sustaining activities.
TPO Staff requests TPO Board approval to commence the “local recommendation process to redesignate the CTC in Polk.”
The TD Local Coordinating Board concurred with commencing this process at its September 15th meeting
RECOMMENDED ACTION
TPO Staff requests TPO Board approval to commence the “local recommendation process to re-designate the CTC in Polk” with the Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged (CTD).
ATTACHMENTS
1. The Designation Process flow chart
2. The CTC’s re-designation request letter from the previous cycle.