Staffing of the Public and Specialized Transit Advisory Council (PASTACC)
San Bernardino Associated Governments, San Bernardino, CA (1991 - present)

                                        

Since the early 1990’s, AMMA Transit Planning has provided on-going staff support to the San Bernardino County transportation commission’s Transit and Rail Programs staff.  At 20,150 square miles, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the continental United States and larger than nine states. Home to 1.7 million persons, communities are widely dispersed among two urbanized areas, San Bernardino and the Victor Valley, along with small rural communities of Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear in the mountains and Mojave desert communities between the Colorado River and the urbanized San Bernardino Valley.

AMMA Transit Planning’s responsibilities in supporting the county transportation commission have included:

   Technical assistance to San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) and to the five public transit operators including writing Federal grants (CMAQ, Section 5313, 5304 and other statewide planning grants, interpreting regulations and assisting with reporting;

   Development of Requests for Proposal documents that are subsequently released by San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) or the operators for consultant response;

  Analysis of vehicle operations, contrasting vehicle deployment with passenger demand and other components of operational analyses;

  California Transportation Development Act unmet transit needs hearings,  responsible for staff analysis of transit requests, including cost analyses and ridership estimates of service requests of general public members made at the annual hearings conducted around the county;

   Addressing Americans with Disabilities (ADA) compliance, including interpreting existing rules and developing comment upon proposed rule changes to the ADA;  regular participation on VVTA's ADA appeals panel;

   Interpreting on-the-street implications of Federal rule making and preparing comments for selected Notices of Proposed Rule Making;

   Training public operators and agencies  in standardized reporting to county’s Transit Operators Performance Reporting system [TOPRS], the precursor to the now-utilized TransTrak;  training around selected application processes:  5310, JARC and New Freedom Call for Projects;

   Staffing the Public and Specialized Transportation Advisory and Coordination Council (PASTACC), including conducting and directing this state-mandated, 35-member technical advisory committee PASTACC [Public and Specialized Transportation Advisory and Coordination Council] which provides oversight and guidance on policy, funding and grant opportunities related to public transit to both the transit and human services providers in the County.