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Committee endorses paratransit cost-sharing language, presses MTA and BART for study by June 30, 2012
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee agreed to amendments requiring the SFMTA and BART to complete a paratransit cost-allocation and administrative-fee study by June 30, 2012, and to memorialize retroactivity; members sought stronger Board oversight of any future fiscal impacts.
The Budget and Finance Committee on Tuesday negotiated new language to a proposed paratransit cost-sharing agreement between the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, pressing the agencies to complete a study of cost allocation and administrative fees by June 30, 2012.
Annette Williams, Accessible Services Manager for the SFMTA, described the long-running arrangement to provide paratransit service to riders unable to use fixed-route service and said the agencies have agreed to commission a new allocation study. "We have agreed with BART to do…
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