Kankakee Times

River Valley Metro Mass Transit District Board of Trustees met Feb. 18.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

Chairman Argyelan called the regularly scheduled River Valley Metro Board of Directors meeting to order at 8:00 AM.

Attending Board Members: Chairman Mark Argyelan, Vice-Chairman Jerry Pearce, Treasurer Nick Allen, Secretary Kelly St. Aubin, Board Members: Norman Grimsley, Carole Franke, and David Hinderliter.

Staff Members Present: Managing Director Robert Hoffmann, Managing Director in Training Siron Sims, Director of Administration Lois Bentley, Director of Administration in Training Amanda Taylor, Director of Operations Michelle Brutlag, COO Ken Munjoy, Transit Officer Rich Berns, Transit Officer Dan Fritcher

Others Present: Charles Posejpal, First Transit

Pledge of Allegiance: Charles Posejpal led the Metro Board and others in attendance in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Public with Business to Come Before the Board:

None

Consent Agenda: Carole Franke made a motion to approve the consent agenda. Kelly St. Aubin seconded the motion. A roll call vote was taken of those in attendance, with all in favor. Consent agenda approved.

Communications:

Chairman’s Report: Mark Argyelan

Mark Argyelan thanked board members for approving the thank you letter sent to First Transit and for moving the February meeting date to accommodate his schedule.

Managing Director’s Report: Robert Hoffmann

None

Operations Report: Charles Posejpal

56,101 rides were provided in January this year, compared to 49,071 last year. Year-to-date, 394,138 rides were provided last year and 409,946 this year. There is one local candidate for First Transit’s program that allows people to be nominated to receive ADA equipment.

Complaints/Comments: Michelle Brutlag

7 complaints in the last 3 weeks. 4 were valid.

62 passengers needed to be transported by CCS and MPD.

Board Report:

Carole Franke thanked Michelle Brutlag for agreeing to represent River Valley Metro on a new steering committee.

New Business:

Maintenance/Facilities Staffing

Employees in these two departments have a combined 215 vacation and personal days per year. Add to that other days off and the total nearly equals one full time person. Recommend that a new position be created to cover days off in both departments. A motion to approve the new position was made by Jerry Pearce, seconded by Kelly St. Aubin, and approved by all in a roll call vote.

RouteMatch Training

Rather than sending only 2 people to RouteMatch for training, we are looking into having a trainer come here to train all involved staff members. Michelle is getting information. Estimated cost is approximately $5000.

Employee Recognition Banquet

Will be at 5:00 PM on April 25th at Hoppy Pig. Reservations are limited to 80 people, so please RSVP as soon as possible.

Old Business:

Kankakee Metro Centre

Vacation of the alley is on the agenda for the city council meeting tonight. We are hoping for approval.

New Website

Launched on February 3rd. Modifications and tweaking are taking place as needed. Siron, Michelle, and Ken can do most of this in-house.

Questions from the news media: 

None

Other Business to come Before the Board:

None.

Executive Session

At 8:18 AM, Kelly St. Aubin made a motion, seconded by David Hinderliter, to go into executive session. A roll call vote was taken with all in favor.

At 8:24 AM, Carole Franke made a motion to move out of executive session and back into regular session. Motion was seconded by Nick Allen and approved by all.

Adjournment

Jerry Pearce made a motion to adjourn at 8:25 AM. Motion was seconded by Nick Allen and approved by all.

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