Ride Solution, Inc.PUTNAM’S COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR

Human Service

“Life is suffering.Suffering demands service.To be of service is to live with purpose.And purpose is beautiful. It brings elation. It brings courage. It allows people to love you, and you fall in love with life as a result of your selfless and wholehearted engagement.”

Lujan Matus

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Human Service

Functional Equality Through Action

Concentration and Distribution of Workforce

National Problem

National Solutions10% Increase In Productivity

Note: In the "Actual" line, the bottom two quintiles are not visible because the lowest quintile owns just 0.1% of all wealth, and the second‐lowest quintile owns 0.2%.

Source: Norton & Ariely, 2010

National ProblemWealth Distribution in America

Obstacles to Public Transit

Source: The New York Times, Column; Infrastructure US: How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country Hiroko Tabuchi On Jun 19, 2018 In cities and counties across the country — including Little Rock, Ark.; Phoenix, Ariz.;

southeast Michigan; central Utah; and in Tennessee — the Koch brothers are fueling a fight against public transit, an offshoot of their longstanding national crusade for lower taxes and smaller government…….

The Kochs’ opposition to transit spending stems from their longstanding free-market, libertarian philosophy. It also dovetails with their financial interests, which benefit from automobiles and highways.

One of the mainstay companies of Koch Industries, the Kochs’ conglomerate, is a major producer of gasoline and asphalt, and also makes seatbelts, tires and other automotive parts. Even as Americans for Prosperity opposes public investment in transit, it supports spending tax money on highways and roads.

“Stopping higher taxes is their rallying cry,” said Ashley Robbins, a researcher at Virginia Tech who follows transportation funding. “But at the end of the day, fuel consumption helps them.”

Detroit Dynamics

Regional Population and Rural Funding Shortfall

County2014 Total

Population 2014 TD

Population % TD

Population 2013 Funding $/TD Capita

Duval $/TD Capita

EquivalentIncrease

Factor Increase $

Duval NTD 1,065,219 Duval AOR 885,855 306,384 29% $ 108,036,202 $ 352.62 Clay 196,399 58,379 30% $ 2,287,329 $ 39.18 Clay/Duval 1,082,254 364,763 34% $ 110,323,531 $ 302.45

Baker 27,013 8,727 32% $ 663,144 $ 75.99 $ 2,639,504 3.98 $ 1,976,360 Bradford 26,850 10,005 37% $ 632,519 $ 63.22 $ 3,026,039 4.78 $ 2,393,520 Columbia 67,543 25,314 37% $ 2,213,929 $ 87.46 $ 7,656,286 3.46 $ 5,442,357 Nassau 75,710 19,464 26% $ 1,007,148 $ 51.74 $ 5,886,938 5.85 $ 4,879,790 Putnam 72,577 44,482 61% $ 2,089,151 $ 46.97 $13,453,698 6.44 $ 11,364,547 Union 15,136 5,073 34% $ 400,571 $ 78.96 $ 1,534,342 3.83 $ 1,133,771

Rural Totals 284,829 113,065 40% $ 7,006,462 $ 61.97 $39,868,639 5.69 $ 32,862,177 % Duval 32% 37% 6%

Regional Total 1,367,083

Public Transit Legacy Funding

Obstacles to Public Transit

Bo Johnson Goes To Jail Today Ex-speaker Is To Serve 2 Years For Tax-evasion Conviction August 30, 1999|By Mike Oliver of The Sentinel Staff The prison door will slam shut today on former House Speaker Bo

Johnson as he begins serving a two-year sentence for tax evasion.

Federal officials aren't saying where Johnson is going, but most likely it will be to a minimum-security federal prison near his Panhandle hometown of Milton, such as Eglin Air Force Base or a facility in Pensacola.

Taxi Industry & Transportation Network Companies (TNC)

Obstacles to Public Transit

Chapter 427 F.S. &

Coordination

Coordinate

By William & Budd Bell, 1979

Coordinate

Barry Manor Bus Shelter

Industry Standard

Coordinate

23 foot van cutaway with 12 ambulatory and 2 wheelchair positions

Advanced Low Floor Bus

Coordinate

26 foot, 25 ambulatory or 5 wheelchairs

Advocate

2019 Florida State Budget

From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1855, $2,300,000 of nonrecurring funds is provided to community

transportation coordinators who operate in counties that are not direct recipients of funding under t6he

Urbanized Area Formula Program set forth in 49 U.S.C. section 5307 (Senate Form 2230). Funds are to be

used to provide transportation services for persons with disabilities, older adults, and people with low

income so that they may access health care, employment, education, and other life-sustaining activities.

Funds allocated for this purpose shall be distributed among community transportation coordinators

based upon the Transportation Disadvantaged Trip and Equipment allocation methodology established

by the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged.

1855 SPECIAL CATEGORIES

GRANTS AND AIDS – TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED

FROM TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED TRUST FUND………………59,906,668

AdvocateMonthly Flex-Route Bus Pass

TD = Low IncomeElderlyDisabled

Contact

Boyd Thompson Director of Operations Ride Solution, Inc. boyd@theridesolution.org 386.325.9999