I now call the November 6th, 2025 Senior Citizens Advisory Board meeting to order.

Has this meeting been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law?

It has.

Thank you.

Would the Deputy City Clerk call the roll, please?

Chair O'Rearch Cameron.

Present.

Vice Chair Graham.

Excuse Member Galotti.

Member Mosdeen.

Present.

Member Drum.

Present.

Member Lee.

Member Tilzer.

Excused.

Member Young.

You have a quorum.

Thank you, Deputy City Clerk.

Item number three, public comment.

Comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited.

Seeing and hearing none.

Do we have any changes or a motion to approve?

Member draw my motion to approve.

So we have a motion to approve the final minutes of the regular meeting of October 2nd, 2025.

All in favor.

Aye.

All right.

As you sit, if you could just state your name for the record, please.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Good afternoon for the record.

My name is Antonette Braddock.

I am the senior director of paratransit and specialized service for the RTC or Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.

And so this afternoon, I'm just gonna tell you a little bit about the services that we provide at the RTC.

Certainly it will not be all inclusive, and I look forward to questions or comments after I share with you what we do.

So at the RTC, we are the Regional Transportation Commission that oversees all of the transportation in Southern Nevada.

And so what that looks like is we have our fixed route service or the city bus, depending on what you call it, the the really big buses that kind of shoot up and down the road every day.

And part of that is also a comparable service for our paratransit customers.

So uh when we think about paratransit customers, it's not specific to age or um visual disability.

It's just anybody who, and I'll talk to you a little bit about how people become certified, but anybody who would be eligible for a paratransit service, which is basically anybody who can't access our fixed route or our transit services.

And then in addition to our fixed route and our paratransit, we also provide several senior transportation services for which is specifically for seniors throughout the Las Vegas Valley.

So first of all, I'll tell you a little bit about our Paratransit.

So Paratransit is a service that um individuals must be eligible for.

So it could be a senior, it could be a teenager, and everything in between.

We certify based off of medical condition, although we are not doctors, so we don't make medical determinations.

We really just look to see whether or not they can actually access the fixed route service.

And once someone is paratransit eligible, then they can use our paratransit service throughout the valley.

We have a service area.

Our service area really it kind of expands, so it encompasses most of Las Vegas, the meaning the city of Las Vegas, but it spans from Henderson all the way up to the northern part of the valley where like the VA hospital is, and then east and west.

So think not quite to the wetlands on the east side and almost in parts of Summerlin up to the west side.

And uh it is a 24-hour service.

We provide it seven days a week, including holidays, so we do not shut down.

Uh we provide paratransit service for everything, so we don't ask trip purpose.

So uh someone's medical trip is just as important as someone going to the library.

Uh we do not deny service, so any paratransit eligible customer that is calling our office to reserve a ride, they will not be denied service.

So no denials at all.

Um customers do have to book up to one day in advance, so it is not a same-day service.