On Monday, August 4, 2025, the Bullhead Area Transit System (BATS) Commission held a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Bullhead City Council Chambers. The meeting included presentations on a new MPO grant and public participation plan, updates on transit finances, ridership, complaints, and federal grant applications, as well as discussion of volunteer and staffing needs.
Transit Program Updates/Reports – Staff Member (Michael):
Commissioner Comments & Discussion:
No, Garn will not be here today. Perfect. Okay. Uh, welcome. This is the Bullhead Area Transit System Commission regular meeting. Monday, August 4th, 2025. Uh call to order. Uh Madam Secretary Rocal. All commission members that are present. Commissioner Frizal is joining us via telephone. Commissioner Frizel, can you hear me okay? Yes, I can. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge elections to the night. And for which it stands. One nation under God. With liberty and justice for all. All right, presentations. Hi, Vice Chair, Board, City Clerk, Michael. I'm just gonna be very brief today. Um, give a little quick update on our um our grant that uh we're working with Michael on, and then uh tomorrow we're officially with the Bullhead City MPO. We're gonna be starting our public participation process for our public participation plan. It's a 45-day plan, but I'll get into that here briefly. Uh right now I'll just get into the to the grant that we got. Has Michael uh shared that with you already? Um a little. For the regional transit plan. It's one of the things we do through the MPO. It's a four-year plan. Um three to four years, could be five, could be six, could be seven, could be, but technically it is supposed to be like a four to five year plan. Um, but they're gonna be going out for a consultation. Michael's done all the scope work and everything so far. Uh, the amount, and actually, I want to give props to Danielle Brunch right here. She actually got this before I come on board. It's a 235,750 uh grant that she got with a local match of 14,250. Um, this will get started. Uh we have to do this public participation plan first, which will take 45 days going out into the public. There'll be multiple different uh um ways we're gonna do that. We're starting here today, even though officially tomorrow will be the first day of the 45 days that we start. We'll announce at the council meeting. We're gonna have tonight we have some hard copies in the back. Uh we'll have them also at tomorrow night's council meeting. Uh we'll be going out to um uh uh the chamber of commerce government affairs meeting. We'll have two town halls here, one on 811, another one on 9-8. Uh we'll be doing uh interview with Make Bullhead Better, uh the Finley Bod uh podcast. We'll be doing both rotary clubs here in uh in Bullhead and in Fort Mojave. Uh Kawana's in Bullhead City, we'll be doing the County Board of Supervisors, and uh since I talked to Robin, uh hopefully we'll be doing military moms as well. And if any organization uh would like to have us come out and talk about the participation plan, we'd love to do that.