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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: June 15, 2020 <br />Staff Report <br />Agenda Section:File Number:20-256 CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number:8.K. <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Jeff Kay <br />City Manager <br />BY:Jeanette Dong <br />Recreation and Human Services Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Liz Warmerdam <br />Interim Finance Director <br />TITLE:Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution to Authorize the <br />City Manager to Approve a Non-Professional Services Agreement with GoGo <br />Technologies, Inc. to Provide Dispatch and Concierge Services to FLEX RIDES <br />On Demand Members Through Fiscal Year 2020-21 At a Cost Not to Exceed <br />$100,000 Utilizing Measure B and Measure BB Funds, and to Authorize <br />Appropriation of $100,000 in Funding from the Special Grant Fund Reserves to <br />the Paratransit Operating Accounts for Fiscal Year 2020-21. <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION <br />Staff recommends that City Council approve and authorize the City Manager to execute a <br />Non-Professional Services Agreement with GoGo Technologies, Inc. to coordinate and dispatch <br />Transportation Network Company (TNC) transportation services for the FLEX RIDES <br />On-Demand program effective July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The City of Hayward acted as the lead agency in a subsidized Taxi Voucher Program that <br />provided door to door services for paratransit riders that was also utilized by City of San Leandro <br />Paratransit Program members from July 2014 through October 2018. The service model was a <br />same day, wheelchair accessible transportation service that provided a limited number of <br />subsidized same-day taxi rides to enrolled participants of the Hayward and San Leandro <br />Paratransit Programs. <br />In order to be eligible for the Taxi Voucher program riders have to be an enrolled participant of the <br />Hayward or San Leandro Paratransit Program, be 70+ years old and/or certified with East Bay <br />Paratransit. Each voucher cost $3.50 and subsidizes up to $14 of taxi meter fare. A maximum of <br />150 taxi vouchers can be purchased in a year and can only be used with the designated taxi <br />companies that are contracted to provide this service. <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 6/10/2020 <br />635