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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution to Authorize the City Manager to Approve a Non-Professional Services Agreement with GoGo Technologies, Inc. to Provide Dispatch and Concierge Services to FLEX RIDES On Demand Members Through Fiscal Year 2020-21 At a Cost Not to Exceed $100,000 Utilizing Measure B and Measure BB Funds, and to Authorize Appropriation of $100,000 in Funding from the Special Grant Fund Reserves to the Paratransit Operating Accounts for Fiscal Year 2020-21.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that City Council approve and authorize the City Manager to execute a Non-Professional Services Agreement with GoGo Technologies, Inc. to coordinate and dispatch Transportation Network Company (TNC) transportation services for the FLEX RIDES On-Demand program effective July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.
BACKGROUND
The City of Hayward acted as the lead agency in a subsidized Taxi Voucher Program that provided door to door services for paratransit riders that was also utilized by City of San Leandro Paratransit Program members from July 2014 through October 2018. The service model was a same day, wheelchair accessible transportation service that provided a limited number of subsidized same-day taxi rides to enrolled participants of the Hayward and San Leandro Paratransit Programs.
In order to be eligible for the Taxi Voucher program riders have to be an enrolled participant of the Hayward or San Leandro Paratransit Program, be 70+ years old and/or certified with East Bay Paratransit. Each voucher cost $3.50 and subsidizes up to $14 of taxi meter fare. A maximum of 150 taxi vouchers can be purchased in a year and can only be used with the designated taxi companies that are contracted to provide this service.
Increasingly, the shift in the door to door transportation industry away from taxis to TNCs (such as Uber and Lyft) has made it increasingly difficult for the San Leandro Paratransit Program members to ...
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