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PUBLIC Ti"ANSIT AND SPECIALIZED TRAN•IT INVESTMENTS • Enhance rider safety and security mobility challenges of older adults and persons with Enhance rider information and education about disabilities.Funds will be distributed monthly based • transit options on the percentage of the population over age 70 in each of four planning areas for city-based and • Enhance affordability for transit riders mandated paratransit services of local bus transit • Implement recommendations for transit service providers: improvements from Community Based • North County-including the cities of,Albany, Transportation Plans Alameda,Berkeley, Emeryville,Oakland and These funds will be distributed periodically by the Piedmont. Alameda CTC.Grant awards will emphasize • Central County-including the cities of Hayward demonstrations or pilot projects which can leverage and San Leandro or unincorporated areas. other funds. • South County-including the cities of Fremont, SPECIALIZED TRANSIT FOR SENIORS Union City,and Newark,as well as Union City AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (10% Transit. OF NET REVENUE, $774 M) • East County-including the cities of Livermore, This program provides funds for local solutions to Dublin, Pleasanton,unincorporated areas,and the growing transportation needs of older adults and LAVTA. persons with disabilities.Funds will be provided to Funds can be further allocated to individual cities transit operators to operate specialized transportation within each planning area based on a formula refined service mandated by the Americans with Disabilities by Alameda CTC's Paratransit Advisory Planning Act. In addition,funds will be provided to each part Committee(PAPCO),a group of seniors and disabled of the County based on their population of residents riders that advise the Alameda CTC. In East County, over age 70 for local programs aimed at improving funding provided to Livermore and Dublin will be mobility for seniors and persons with disabilities.The assigned to LAVTA for their ADA mandated program includes three components. paratransit program.In Central County,funding will be provided to Hayward to serve the unincorporated Pass-through funding for East Bay Paratransit areas. Consortium (6%of net revenue,estimated at Coordination and Gap Grants(1%of net $464 M) revenue,estimated at$77 M) This funding will assist the East Bay Paratransit These funds,administered by the Alameda CTC,will Consortium to meet the requirements of the be used for the purposes of coordinating services American's With Disabilities Act.These funds will be across jurisdictional lines or filling gaps in the disbursed to and directed by the two agencies that system's ability to meet the mobility needs of seniors operate the East Bay Paratransit Consortium: and persons with disabilities.These funds will be • AC Transit will receive 4.5%of net proceeds periodically distributed by the Alameda CTC for annually,estimated at$348 M from 2012 to 2042 projects and programs with proven ability to: towards meeting its responsibilities under the • Improve mobility for seniors and persons with Americans with Disabilities Act. disabilities by filling gaps in the services • BART will receive 1.5%of net proceeds annually, available to this population. estimated at$116 M from 2012 to 2042,towards • Provide education and encouragement to seniors meeting its responsibilities under the Americans and persons with disabilities who are able to use with Disabilities Act standard public transit to do so. City-based and Locally Mandated Pass-through Improve the quality and affordability of transit •funding(3%of net revenue,estimated at $232 M) and paratransit services for those who are dependent on them. Pass-through funding provided to each of the four subareas of the County will be used for • Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ADA- implementation of locally developed solutions to the mandated and local services.