Agenda Item Wording:
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Rescind Authorization - Rescind authorization of the City Manager to enter into a five-year Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Visalia and the Tulare County Regional Transit Agency to partner on a three-year micro transit pilot project.
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Deadline for Action: 6/24/2024
Submitting Department: Administration
Contact Name and Phone Number: Angelina DeRossett, Transit Manager, Angelina.DeRossett@visalia.city, (559)713-4591; John Lollis, Assistant City Manager, John.Lollis@visalia.city, (559)713-4323
Department Recommendation:
Rescind authorization of the City Manager to enter into a five-year Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Visalia and the Tulare County Regional Transit Agency to partner on a three-year micro transit pilot project.
Background Discussion:
At its meeting on January 16, 2024, the City Council authorized the City Manager to enter into a five-year Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Visalia and the Tulare County Regional Transit Agency (TCRTA) in partnership on a three-year micro transit pilot project. The pilot project involves the implementation of micro transit service across Tulare County and is an initiative supported by federal funding provided by the Tulare County Association of Governments (TCAG).
Subsequent to the Council's authorization, it became the determination of City staff that the provision of micro transit services within the city would be best provided by the City's contracted transit provider and was accordingly incorporated within the recent Request for Proposals for Management, Operations and Maintenance of the Visalia Transit System, to take effect October 1, 2024.
On Wednesday, May 18, 2024, City staff provided written notice to TCRTA staff that the City would be administering its own micro transit system within the city as part of the three-year pilot project funded by TCAG. Although under a...
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