Agenda Item Wording:
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Approval of Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan - Approval of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) and authorize the City Manager to sign on behalf of Visalia Transit and to annually review and approve.
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Submitting Department: Administration - Transit Division
Prepared by:
Caleb Bowman, Transit Management Analyst, Caleb.Bowman@visalia.city, (559)713-4594
Angelina Baker, Transit Manager, Angelina.Baker@visalia.gov, (559)713-4591
John Lollis, Assistant City Manager, John.Lollis@visalia.city, (559)713-4323
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council approve the draft Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) and authorize the City Manager to sign on behalf of Visalia Transit and to annually review and approve.
Summary:
In compliance with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regulations, City staff has developed a new PTASP in conjunction with the new contractor RATP Dev USA (RATP). The previous adopted PTASP was developed in conjunction with the previous contractor Transdev, then First Transit, which included policies and procedures specific to First Transit. This is a draft PTASP since staff is waiting on data from the prior fiscal year, July 2024 through June 2025, for actual counts and to estimate the Fiscal Year 2025-26 targets, however, the policies and procedures will not change.
Background Discussion:
On July 19, 2018, the FTA published the PTASP Final Rule, which requires certain operators of public transportation systems that receive federal funds under FTA's Urbanized Area (UZA) Formula Grants to develop safety plans that include the processes and procedures to implement Safety Management Systems (SMS). The FTA published a Notice of Enforcement Discretion on April 22, 2020, effectively extending the PTASP compliance deadline from July 20, 2020 to December 31, 2020. The rule applies to all operators of public transportation systems that are recipients and sub-r...
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