Fiscal Note
Funds for this contract service are provided for within the operating budget for Metro Transit. Estimated cost of the service for 2007 is $664,309.
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Authorizing the Mayor and the City Clerk to enter into an agreement with Badger Bus Lines for provision of ADA paratransit services in a Long-Term Assignment Program to Metro Transit through September 2009 with an option to extend for up to 6 additional months.
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Metro Transit, a division of the City of Madison, is required under the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide complementary paratransit services to its fixed route transit operation. The high cost of providing the service prompted development of this Long-Term Assignment program to encourage a greater number of proposals, and consequently more competitive pricing for the portion of the service where customers have recurring trip patterns - representing approximately 3% of ADA eligible customers and an estimated 17% of paratransit trips.
WHEREAS the concept and elements of the Long-Term Assignment program were reviewed and approved by the ADA Transit Subcommittee to the Transit & Parking Commission (ADA TS); and
WHEREAS Metro Transit distributed its Request for Proposals and received proposals from 4 firms; and
WHEREAS Badger Bus Lines was identified as having submitted the most responsive and responsible proposal; and
WHEREAS proposed costs per trip are 12% less than under the existing Pilot of the program;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with Badger Bus Lines for the provision of paratransit services for Metro Transit in the Long-Term Assignment program through September 2009 with an option to extend for up to an additional 6 months.