I.          The meeting of the TAC was commenced at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 3, 2000 at the EMS building, 81 W. Agate, Granby, Colorado.   In Attendance: Sue Ann Fitch, Deb Campbell, Gary McGraw, Dennis Ducommun, Becky Swatzell, Jim Cervenka, Steve Saffle, Kent Meyer, Lurline Curran, Kent Crowder, Darryl Shrum, Catherine Ross, Dennis Brinker, Jim Gerton and Janet Aley.

II.         Lurline Curran made a motion to approve the minutes from the regular meeting of the Transit Advisory Committee from January 6, 2000; motion was seconded by Gary McGraw; motion carried unanimously.

III.              Presentation by TDP Consultant. A.T. Stoddard of LSC Transportation Consultants, Inc. presented information on what they will be doing and what we can expect from them through the following outline: (1) Project tasks and scheduling; (2) Roles; (3) Transportation issues to be addressed (they are looking for issues that we want them to develop); and (4) TAC Workshop scheduling.  LSC's budget will include the nine original tasks plus the 10th and 11th tasks to be completed after the TDP is done, so long as their time expenditures are not unreasonable. 

LSC is seeking to complete the data compilation, inventory and updating existing services by the end of this month.  A day session will be needed to work on a vision statement, and then a demand estimation will be done next.  A "tech. memo" (working document/draft chapters of the TDP) will be presented after that for review by this committee with a Master Transportation Plan including recommendations to follow.  The second "tech. memo" will provide the TAC with an opportunity to provide feedback.  An operations program and draft TDP document with estimate for funding sources could be available for review by July 1^st or August 1st.  A.T.Stoddard recommends the later date to allow for early feedback and review time.  A.T. Stoddard stated that they could move the public meeting on the draft TDP back some to the end of August.  The TAC agreed on this. Upcoming meeting dates set:  March 2 - TAC Vision & Goal Setting -  1-5  -  EMS Bldg.  Public Meetings:  March 1 - Kremmling Town Hall - 7-9 p.m.  March 2 - Winter Park Town Hall - 7-9 p.m.  March 8 - Grand Lake Town Hall - 7-9 p.m.  March 9 - Walden at Wattenberg Ctr. - 7-9 p.m.

Preliminary data to be collected and transferred to LSC was discussed at length.  (Note: Please refer to Memorandum from Sue Ann Fitch dated February 5, 2000, giving complete detail on what information is to be provided for each area by Monday, February 14, 2000.)

Existing transit provider inventory information is to be brought to the subcommittee meeting at the EGSD district office on Monday, February 14th.

Transportation issues developed by the consultant prior to this meeting include:  (1) Current Travel Patterns;  (2) Unmet Needs (existing and provided); (3)  Best Type of Services including:  Coordination,  Public/private and  Changes to existing services; (4) Marketing and Promotion; and (5) Financing .

Transportation Issues developed at this TAC meeting include: (1) Year-round services; (2) County-wide services (Grand & Jackson Counties); (3) Low Resident Ridership (D. Shrum wants to know what the mix is); (4) How do we deal with a service for all employees in the county (how to integrate this); (5) Residents do not use existing system whether skiing or not; (6) Feasibility of providing service to Jackson County; (7) Funds for van replacement for seniors; (8) Accessing recreational facilities / connections with rail services, airports and bus lines; (9) Location for bus maintenance facility; (10) Transportation for younger teens to employment; (11) Getting residents and visitors to Summit, Steamboat and Denver; transporting workers traveling to Empire across Grand County for jobs.

IV.            Website.  Winter Park Web has offered to create and host a website for the transit committee at no cost.   The address will be http://transit.rkymtnhi.com.

V.            Surveys.  After lengthy discussion, this committee agreed to have the consultant design surveys geared towards different types of riderships, eg tourists, residents, employees, lodging, etc.  These will be ready by February 14th.

VI.        Funding Subcommittee. A funding subcommittee was formed.  Darryl Shrum accepted chairmanship of this committee and Catherine Ross also volunteered for the committee. The purpose of this subcommittee is to assist the TDP consultant to evaluate the appropriateness of various funding alternatives.  Long range, the Funding subcommittee might also function to make actual funding applications.

VII.      Other. 

The next Northwest Regional Transportation Meeting (consisting of Grand, Routt, Jackson, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties) will meet next week, 2/10/00 in Steamboat to discuss the 2001 - 2006 STIP.

The Summit Stage, Kremmling/Silverthorne Commuter Connections is going extremely well and they are in the process of starting another van.

VIII.     Next Meeting.  Lurline Underbrink Curran made a motion that there will be no regular TAC meeting in March other than the workshop on March 2nd from 1-5 and the four public meetings; motion passed unanimously.

IX.       The regular meeting of the TAC adjourned at 8 p.m.

X.            Meeting of TAC Voting Members:  Finalization of LSC Contract .  Darryl Shrum moved to approve the contract with LSC, Dennis Brinker seconded; motion carried unanimously.

XI.            Meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m.