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2015 scCultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March
10, 2020 1
Bus Pass Program Update
By: Christine Miktarian, Vice Chancellor, Operations
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 2
History of Parking Fees, Fines & Use of Parking Revenue • Increased Parking Fees & Fines November 2014 from $19 to $30 per semester
due to the need for additional funding for maintenance of parking lots. Prior increase was $1 in 1991.
Use of revenue (as allowed by Ed. Code 76360): • Maintenance & Operational Costs:
• Parking dispensers, signage, and permits • Parking fine administrator fees, parking ticket appeals • Student Workers related to parking, i.e. parking control, DSOs that patrol lots, summer
paint crew that stripe stalls and paint curbs in parking lots, etc. • 25% of Police Officer salaries for patrol & 25% of Groundsworker salaries to parking lots • Improvements of parking lots via construction projects
• Transportation – Transit services for students and staff (the Free Bus Pass Program) starting in 2017
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 3
Free Bus Pass Program
Source: https://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/news/2017/bus%20pass.html
• Pilot program started in 2017- 2018, initially as a one-year program. The program was prompted by:
1. Solar construction in parking lots, and;
2. Students were considering funding a bus pass program through a student transportation fee, however, the cost was unknown.
• Current Transit Fee Pricing: • Single ride: $1.10 (reduced from
$1.25 per ride). • $48/month cap (No reduction)
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 4
Continuing the Pilot Program – Summarized Timeline of Events • In summer 2018: we were still experiencing parking impacts due to construction and renewed
the transit contracts. • July 2019: District Administration discussed the inability to continue funding the program using
parking revenue; it was decided to discontinue using parking revenue after 2020 and to start communicating with students that parking revenue funding would end in June 2020. The thought was this: provide a one-year transition to allow for a potential student led effort to consider a transportation fee and/or to potentially find other funding sources.
• August 2019: During the budget discussion with District administration, the potential use of $150,000 from the annual Follett bookstore funding could help fund the bus pass program; and, ASGs were working on this issue, with a potential student tax.
• January 2020: The City of Fresno FAX announced in their monthly newsletter that the free bus pass program would end in June 2020. Students began voicing concerns over the discontinued program.
• February-March 2020: Chancellor initiated a bus pass taskforce/workgroup; District staff contacted the City of Fresno, councilmembers, congressmembers, performed research of ridership, initiated student feedback via survey, researched how other community colleges funded transit programs, explored other non-traditional funding options.
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 5
2020 Transportation Survey (Results as of 3/9/2020, filtered to include FCC and CCC Students only)
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 6
Was the program successful? – Look at Ridership
• Add numbers from FCC’s data
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 7
Transit use by students, by zip code
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 8
FTES generation by students using transit
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 9
How are other College/Districts funding transit? Funding Source(s)
College/District w/Transit Programs Student Transportation Fee Other Solano CCD $1/unit Santa Rosa $1/unit NTE$10/Sem Los Rios CCD $2.25/unit, up to $33.75/Sem Butte $20/$55/$73 (scaled for units)** College of the Desert $25/primary term* Santiago College $4.30/$5/Sem. PT/FT Santa Ana College $5.75/$6.75/Sem. PT/FT Citrus College $6/$7/Sem. PT/FT COS $9/$10 PT/FT
Golden West College $5/$5.75/Sem. PT/FT after year 1 Grant NTE $190k, 1st year
Fullerton College $5/$5.75/Sem. PT/FT after year 1 Grant NTE $190k, 1st year Columbia College No Assoc Student Funds, Foundation, AB19
Los Angeles CCCD No Grant funded
San Diego CCD No
Students enrolled in 7 or more units can purchase reduced rate passes: Monthly Bus & Trolley Pass: $57.60; Semester Bus &
Trolley Pass: $181.
Antelope Valley No Reduced rate plus: Student Equity75%; City grant 25% Modesto JC No Student Equity Long Beach CCD No Student Equity, AB19 (Promise)
*Includes parking permit or transit pass **Includes parking and transit pass
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 10
Internal Funding, Student Transportation Fees, & Other
• FCC ASG passed a resolution to consider transportation fees • FCC Academic Senate took a straw poll in support of staff-self tax, so did
FCC management - SUPPORTIVE • Congress member and City Council members have expressed support.
• Fresno City Council passed resolution on 3/5/2020 directing staff to work with SCCCD “on a program for discounted FAX bus passes for students”
• Air Board (SJVAPCD) grant funding • New Concept – External funding through Bitwise…
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 11
Bitwise Funding for Student Transit
Bitwise proposed to fully fund student bus passes,
ongoing (time TBD), if we can partner with the City of Fresno to implement a new mobile app that
would assist and encourage ridership throughout the
community. Free Transit for students!
Reduce emissions, access to college, increased ridership Behavior changing for millennials INVESTMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY
SCCCD
Bitwise City of Fresno
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 12
Pros/Cons of potential funding sources Pros Cons
Parking revenue Available now
Takes away from parking maintenance, may not sustain longterm
Grants Doesn’t take away from existing funding, need
Is not a reliable funding source, partial funding potential
Student transportation fees Could provide all or part of the necessary funding
students must vote this in; all students pay something
Implement fee for bus pass added to ASB card Provides funding thru those that will
use it, optional cost
Puts a larger burden on students that don’t have their own transportation, may be costly
Foundation funding Provides funding through a source that wants to help
limited amount of longterm funding available
Bitwise Fully Funded!
Need partnership with the City, outside our control, funding sustainabiliy
AB 19 Available Takes away from other needs Student Equity funds Available Takes away from other needs
Sheet1
96510
$ 772
$ 1,864
$ 2,636
$ 257
$ 932
$ 675
$ 3
$ 1,318
$ 1,318
Other
Columbia College
Citrus College
Solano CCD
$9 for 5 units or less; $10 for 6+ units
($9 for 5 units or less, $10 for 6 units or more
Butte
**Includes parking and transit pass
Sheet3
Pros
Cons
Grants
Is not a reliable funding source, partial funding potential
Student transportation fees
Provides funding thru those that will use it, optional cost
Puts a larger burden on students that don’t have their own transportation, may be costly
Foundation funding
limited amount of longterm funding available
Bitwise
Need partnership with the City, outside our control, funding sustainabiliy
AB 19
Student Equity funds
Takes away from other needs
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 13
Current status and short-term solution • Working with the City of Fresno for a reduction of costs and/or to implement
Bitwise proposed mobile app. • Extension of transit contracts through Summer 2020 to allow the City of Fresno to
work through their process to reduce fees or agree to Bitwise solution (contract extension is board agenda item #13.01).
• Short-term: Fund the transit contracts using the current funding source of parking revenue. Recommend that the Board approve contract extensions through the summer 2020 while the City of Fresno works through their process to reduce their fees for students.
• Work with the San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District for grant funding. • Work with students across the district • Communicate commitment to continue the program!
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 14
Long-term solution 1. Work with the City of Fresno and Bitwise to either reduce costs or implement a
transit app that will fund, or help fund the program.
2. Work with City of Fresno to extend transit service to Clovis Community College 3. Explore expansion for transit services to other colleges, i.e. rural transit, MAX, etc. 4. Seek grant or other funding sources, where and when available. 5. Work with Finance and colleges to determine funding sources, potential options are:
• Continued parking revenue • Grants • Student transportation fees (requires that students vote to approve these fees) • Implement fee to students IF they select to have a bus pass to added to their ASB card. • Foundation funding • AB 19 • Student Equity fund
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 15
Questions, Comments
Free Bus Pass Program
Continuing the Pilot Program – Summarized Timeline of Events
2020 Transportation Survey (Results as of 3/9/2020, filtered to include FCC and CCC Students only)
Was the program successful? – Look at Ridership
Transit use by students, by zip code
FTES generation by students using transit
How are other College/Districts funding transit?
Internal Funding, Student Transportation Fees, & Other
Bitwise Funding for Student Transit
Pros/Cons of potential funding sources
Current status and short-term solution
Long-term solution
Questions, Comments
Bus Pass Program Update
By: Christine Miktarian, Vice Chancellor, Operations
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 2
History of Parking Fees, Fines & Use of Parking Revenue • Increased Parking Fees & Fines November 2014 from $19 to $30 per semester
due to the need for additional funding for maintenance of parking lots. Prior increase was $1 in 1991.
Use of revenue (as allowed by Ed. Code 76360): • Maintenance & Operational Costs:
• Parking dispensers, signage, and permits • Parking fine administrator fees, parking ticket appeals • Student Workers related to parking, i.e. parking control, DSOs that patrol lots, summer
paint crew that stripe stalls and paint curbs in parking lots, etc. • 25% of Police Officer salaries for patrol & 25% of Groundsworker salaries to parking lots • Improvements of parking lots via construction projects
• Transportation – Transit services for students and staff (the Free Bus Pass Program) starting in 2017
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 3
Free Bus Pass Program
Source: https://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/news/2017/bus%20pass.html
• Pilot program started in 2017- 2018, initially as a one-year program. The program was prompted by:
1. Solar construction in parking lots, and;
2. Students were considering funding a bus pass program through a student transportation fee, however, the cost was unknown.
• Current Transit Fee Pricing: • Single ride: $1.10 (reduced from
$1.25 per ride). • $48/month cap (No reduction)
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 4
Continuing the Pilot Program – Summarized Timeline of Events • In summer 2018: we were still experiencing parking impacts due to construction and renewed
the transit contracts. • July 2019: District Administration discussed the inability to continue funding the program using
parking revenue; it was decided to discontinue using parking revenue after 2020 and to start communicating with students that parking revenue funding would end in June 2020. The thought was this: provide a one-year transition to allow for a potential student led effort to consider a transportation fee and/or to potentially find other funding sources.
• August 2019: During the budget discussion with District administration, the potential use of $150,000 from the annual Follett bookstore funding could help fund the bus pass program; and, ASGs were working on this issue, with a potential student tax.
• January 2020: The City of Fresno FAX announced in their monthly newsletter that the free bus pass program would end in June 2020. Students began voicing concerns over the discontinued program.
• February-March 2020: Chancellor initiated a bus pass taskforce/workgroup; District staff contacted the City of Fresno, councilmembers, congressmembers, performed research of ridership, initiated student feedback via survey, researched how other community colleges funded transit programs, explored other non-traditional funding options.
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 5
2020 Transportation Survey (Results as of 3/9/2020, filtered to include FCC and CCC Students only)
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 6
Was the program successful? – Look at Ridership
• Add numbers from FCC’s data
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 7
Transit use by students, by zip code
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 8
FTES generation by students using transit
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 9
How are other College/Districts funding transit? Funding Source(s)
College/District w/Transit Programs Student Transportation Fee Other Solano CCD $1/unit Santa Rosa $1/unit NTE$10/Sem Los Rios CCD $2.25/unit, up to $33.75/Sem Butte $20/$55/$73 (scaled for units)** College of the Desert $25/primary term* Santiago College $4.30/$5/Sem. PT/FT Santa Ana College $5.75/$6.75/Sem. PT/FT Citrus College $6/$7/Sem. PT/FT COS $9/$10 PT/FT
Golden West College $5/$5.75/Sem. PT/FT after year 1 Grant NTE $190k, 1st year
Fullerton College $5/$5.75/Sem. PT/FT after year 1 Grant NTE $190k, 1st year Columbia College No Assoc Student Funds, Foundation, AB19
Los Angeles CCCD No Grant funded
San Diego CCD No
Students enrolled in 7 or more units can purchase reduced rate passes: Monthly Bus & Trolley Pass: $57.60; Semester Bus &
Trolley Pass: $181.
Antelope Valley No Reduced rate plus: Student Equity75%; City grant 25% Modesto JC No Student Equity Long Beach CCD No Student Equity, AB19 (Promise)
*Includes parking permit or transit pass **Includes parking and transit pass
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 10
Internal Funding, Student Transportation Fees, & Other
• FCC ASG passed a resolution to consider transportation fees • FCC Academic Senate took a straw poll in support of staff-self tax, so did
FCC management - SUPPORTIVE • Congress member and City Council members have expressed support.
• Fresno City Council passed resolution on 3/5/2020 directing staff to work with SCCCD “on a program for discounted FAX bus passes for students”
• Air Board (SJVAPCD) grant funding • New Concept – External funding through Bitwise…
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 11
Bitwise Funding for Student Transit
Bitwise proposed to fully fund student bus passes,
ongoing (time TBD), if we can partner with the City of Fresno to implement a new mobile app that
would assist and encourage ridership throughout the
community. Free Transit for students!
Reduce emissions, access to college, increased ridership Behavior changing for millennials INVESTMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY
SCCCD
Bitwise City of Fresno
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 12
Pros/Cons of potential funding sources Pros Cons
Parking revenue Available now
Takes away from parking maintenance, may not sustain longterm
Grants Doesn’t take away from existing funding, need
Is not a reliable funding source, partial funding potential
Student transportation fees Could provide all or part of the necessary funding
students must vote this in; all students pay something
Implement fee for bus pass added to ASB card Provides funding thru those that will
use it, optional cost
Puts a larger burden on students that don’t have their own transportation, may be costly
Foundation funding Provides funding through a source that wants to help
limited amount of longterm funding available
Bitwise Fully Funded!
Need partnership with the City, outside our control, funding sustainabiliy
AB 19 Available Takes away from other needs Student Equity funds Available Takes away from other needs
Sheet1
96510
$ 772
$ 1,864
$ 2,636
$ 257
$ 932
$ 675
$ 3
$ 1,318
$ 1,318
Other
Columbia College
Citrus College
Solano CCD
$9 for 5 units or less; $10 for 6+ units
($9 for 5 units or less, $10 for 6 units or more
Butte
**Includes parking and transit pass
Sheet3
Pros
Cons
Grants
Is not a reliable funding source, partial funding potential
Student transportation fees
Provides funding thru those that will use it, optional cost
Puts a larger burden on students that don’t have their own transportation, may be costly
Foundation funding
limited amount of longterm funding available
Bitwise
Need partnership with the City, outside our control, funding sustainabiliy
AB 19
Student Equity funds
Takes away from other needs
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 13
Current status and short-term solution • Working with the City of Fresno for a reduction of costs and/or to implement
Bitwise proposed mobile app. • Extension of transit contracts through Summer 2020 to allow the City of Fresno to
work through their process to reduce fees or agree to Bitwise solution (contract extension is board agenda item #13.01).
• Short-term: Fund the transit contracts using the current funding source of parking revenue. Recommend that the Board approve contract extensions through the summer 2020 while the City of Fresno works through their process to reduce their fees for students.
• Work with the San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District for grant funding. • Work with students across the district • Communicate commitment to continue the program!
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 14
Long-term solution 1. Work with the City of Fresno and Bitwise to either reduce costs or implement a
transit app that will fund, or help fund the program.
2. Work with City of Fresno to extend transit service to Clovis Community College 3. Explore expansion for transit services to other colleges, i.e. rural transit, MAX, etc. 4. Seek grant or other funding sources, where and when available. 5. Work with Finance and colleges to determine funding sources, potential options are:
• Continued parking revenue • Grants • Student transportation fees (requires that students vote to approve these fees) • Implement fee to students IF they select to have a bus pass to added to their ASB card. • Foundation funding • AB 19 • Student Equity fund
Cultivating Lives Through Education Bus Pass Update March 10, 2020 15
Questions, Comments
Free Bus Pass Program
Continuing the Pilot Program – Summarized Timeline of Events
2020 Transportation Survey (Results as of 3/9/2020, filtered to include FCC and CCC Students only)
Was the program successful? – Look at Ridership
Transit use by students, by zip code
FTES generation by students using transit
How are other College/Districts funding transit?
Internal Funding, Student Transportation Fees, & Other
Bitwise Funding for Student Transit
Pros/Cons of potential funding sources
Current status and short-term solution
Long-term solution
Questions, Comments