Minutes 05 09 02
MINUTES OF THE WILMINGTON TRANSIT AUTHORITY May 9, 2002 MEMBERS PRESENT Mr. Dick Scott, Chairman Mr. Howard Capps Ms. Laura Padgett Mr. William Boyd Mr. Harry Forden MEMBERS ABSENT Ms.
Rosa Webb STAFF PRESENT Mr. Albert Eby Mr. Corey Johnson GUESTS PRESENT Lawless Bean, TDM Coordinator, City of Wilmington CALL TO ORDER Chairman Scott called the meeting to order at
12:05 p.m. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Mr. Forden made a motion to approve the minutes from the May 09, 2002 meeting. Mr. Boyd seconded and the motion carried unanimously. 2. MANAGEMENT
CONTRACT EXTENSION Mr. Scott informed the board that the management contract between the City and CCL Management would expire June 30, 2002. The contract has provisions for extensions
until June 30, 2004. The City recommended to the Board that CCL be given a one-year extension in accordance with the contract. Mr. Scott went on to say that he thought that a one-year
extension would allow the study to be completed before another contract was sought. Board member Forden made a motion to extend the contract between the City of Wilmington and CCL
Management for the period of 01 July 2002 through 30 June 2003. Board Vice-Chairman Boyd seconded and the motion was carried unanimously. Mr. Scott instructed staff to draft the necessary
resolution for his signature. A copy of the resolution is included in this packet.
3. MERGER STUDY Public Involvement Ms. Bean informed the board that there was a public information meeting at the town hall building on Castle St. on May 13th. The purpose of the
meeting was to allow citizens to give their input on the services provided by the WTA and New Hanover County Transportation Services. Ms. Bean spoke about the format of the meeting
and that the consultants would be holding the meeting to get input on the master plan. Ms. Padgett suggested that Ms. Bean inform the speakers to keep their presentations to a minimum
in order to provide the public the maximum allowable time for their input. 4. BUS BENCHES Mr. Capps reported that his committee had chosen a bench style and moved that a small number
of benches be purchased in order to evaluate their advantages and disadvantages. Mr. Eby mentioned that were approximately $5,000.00 in funds for benches in one grant and that an amount
equal to that would give staff enough benches for a proper evaluation. Mr. Forden seconded the motion to purchase $5,000.00 of bus stop benches and the motion carried unanimously.
5. REPORT FROM THE CHAIRMAN Mr. Scott asked that the meeting be moved into a work session the remainder of the meeting was devoted to working on updating the mission statement for
the Authority and the necessary objectives and goals to meet the mission. An outline of the work session will be included in the next agenda packet. 6. OTHER BUSINESS, SCHEDULING OF
NEXT MEETING The next meeting was scheduled for Thursday, June 13th 2002, at 12:00pm in the WTA conference room. Being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 1:26 p.m. Respectfully
submitted, . Albert Eby General Manager