4/13/2020 Boulder LCC
- Location: Microsoft Teams Meeting (virtual)
- Introductions – 37 in attendance
- With intros we also spoke about how each of organizations have been affected by COVID-19 and what we’ve been doing to meet needs in our communities
- Meet every month 2:00pm-4:00pm
- Even months – Longmont
- Odd months – Boulder
- Mission – Overcome transportation gaps in the community
- Multi-modal education
- Homeless Solutions for Boulder County – Heidi
- They have set up a COVID-19 Recovery Center (CRC)
- Have devoted the Rec Center to this purpose
- Giving transportation to and from the CRC to the clinics for testing
- They have set up a COVID-19 Recovery Center (CRC)
- RTD – Chris Quinn
- Service changes will go into effect this Sunday (4/19)
- You can find more information on the RTD website
- Access a Ride is doing grocery deliveries
- Have had 60 grocery trips so far in April
- Access a Ride has presumptive eligibility until assessments with Easter Seals can start up again
- Service changes will go into effect this Sunday (4/19)
- Cultivate – Kristi
- Doubling enrollment each week!!
- Still haven’t hit a point where they must reject enrollments
- Carry-out Caravan – doing grocery trips
- Expanding to Broomfield site
- They have partnered with organizations who have devoted property to set up a decontamination site
- All food is wiped down and put into new decontaminated bags
- For now, they are not bringing the groceries in and helping to put them away
- Doubling enrollment each week!!
- Via – Lisa
- Paratransit is still available, but mostly they are doing grocery delivery
- They are also partnering with Children’s Hospital in Broomfield
- When children need to be transported to Denver hospitals the parents are not allowed to accompany the kids right now
- Via is helping to transport the parents to the Denver hospitals
- 1 person per vehicle right now
- Hosting online community events
- Mobility 4 All – Angel
- Have postponed all workshops
- Rescheduling for the fall
- Thinking about trying peer to peer Zoom or Google Hangout meetings
- LiVE program
- Planned to train other agencies in how to help a rider go through the sign-up process
- This is also postponed until in-person training can be done
- Planned to train other agencies in how to help a rider go through the sign-up process
- RFP for program to get a Longmont FlexRide-like program
- Aiming for July 1st
- This project IS still moving forward
- COVID-19 resources can be found on the Boulder City page
- Have postponed all workshops
- Census – Craig
- This census has a huge value for the next 10 years
- There are tutorial videos on how to take the online census (includes instructions for the blind and using screen readers)
- 2020census.gov
- Or take over the phone: 1-844-330-2020
- American Cancer Society – Jenn
- Services ARE paused, but they are continuing to provide resources
- Information for cancer patients on what to know about COVID-19 can be found on their website: cancer.org
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- NEXT MEETING
- Monday 5/11/2020
- Location: possibly still virtual?
- Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
