The Bullhead Area Transit System (BATS) Commission held a regular meeting on August 5, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. in the Bullhead City Council Chambers. All three commissioners were present, and the meeting was led by Chairman A. J. Pompos. The primary agenda items included approval of previous minutes, reports from Transit Manager Michael Peluso on financial and performance data, passenger complaints, clarifications of public concerns, and a detailed evaluation of service and stop amenities.
The meeting adjourned at an undisclosed time.
Call to order Bull Hood Area Transit Commission August 5th, 2024. Madam Clerk, roll call. All commission members are present. Okay. Under individual. Right, our call to the public. We have no one here this afternoon. So we'll uh see if we can make a motion to approve the minutes from May 6th, 2024. I make a motion to approve the May 6, 2024 minutes. And I second the motion. Thank you. Any uh requests or postpone the liquidity. We just need to finish Mr. Chair, we just need to finish the vote. Oh in favor, say aye. All in favor say aye. Three in favor of the motion. Motion carries. Sorry. Any requests to postpone or withdrawal of any items. Discussion or hearing any action items. Okay. Reports by commission members. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we do have some transit program updates and reports, and I've got a couple of them here that I'm gonna go through. Hopefully, if you guys have any questions, just stop me, let me know. I'm glad to talk about it. Um so the first thing you're gonna see a couple of things on here that we normally see, and then a couple of new things at the commission's request, and then a couple other things that staff just wanted to make sure that we went over. Um the first thing as always is gonna be our financial and performance reports. Um I've given a couple of reports over the last few commission meetings that were still a little backed up, but that's a thing that's not from us necessarily. ADOT's been very far behind in being able to let us process our reimbursement requests. Um so uh what you guys have in front of you right now is the January report. Um, just after this was sent out for the commission packet, uh, we were able to get February's submitted. Um, and I'm hoping that within the next couple of weeks that'll get cleared, and then I'll be able to start with March. Um we are done and ready to process up through May already. So I'm just sitting on them waiting for the approvals. Uh, but either way, everything's looking good where we have for budgeting, both in what we're getting from the reimbursements. Uh we continue to get through what we're anticipating for the expenditure limits and whatnot for what we have in the grant. So um, and then uh pretty much all the performance data is pretty typical. Um, and one of the things that was requested that we add to um my report um is just some of the ridership statistics. Um, and so this is uh like I had mentioned at the last meeting. Uh I was able to pull kind of the last three months that we typically report um uh during the city manager's report. So we were able to pull these numbers from April, May, and June uh for the commissioners for each one of the routes that we provide and the number of trips that we provided on those services. I have a question, Michael. Yes, um, under the performance data, the passenger trips, you have volunteer drivers too. Is that two trips or two drivers? No, that is two drivers. I can only have two volunteer driving staff currently.