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571 Ledbetter Road
Xenia, Ohio 45385
Office Hours: Monday-Friday
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Phone: (937) 562-6466 or 877-227-CATS
Fairborn residents: (937) 426-1779 ext:6466
Dispatch: 937-374-6402 or 800-980-6402
TDD/TTY (Ohio Relay Service) 800-750-0750 |
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The
Greene County Transit Board was created in October 2003, by the Greene
County Board of Commissioners as a public body, under O.R.C. Section 306.
Per the O.R.C., the Greene County Transit Board consists of seven members,
with all members and the Chairperson appointed by Greene County Board of
Commissioners.The Greene County Transit Board conducts business under the
widely known “Greene CATS” name. The Greene County Transit Board was
preceded by the Greene County Coordinated Agency Transportation System,
Inc., a 501(c)(3), that was the first entity to conduct business as Greene
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Currently:
The following people
serve as members of the Greene County Transit Board:
(Chairperson)
Anne Gerard, (Vice-Chairperson) Judge David Reid, (Secretary-Treasuer)
Williard Clark,
David Middleton, Woody Stroud,
Rose Zellmer and Tom Koogler. Greene CATS
staff consists of the Executive Director, Fiscal Officer, Transit
Scheduler, Assistant Transit Scheduler, Transit Data Clerk and Part-Time
Transit Data Clerk. The
appointing authority of the staff is the Greene County Transit Board.
Staff
is housed at
571 Ledbetter Road,
Xenia,
OH,
45385.The
Greene County Transit Board contracts out with First Transit, to
provide day-to-day operations and maintenance of the service and its
vehicles. First
Transit operates out of its
facility on
S. Patton Street,
in
Xenia.
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Service:
Greene CATS has provided public
transit service since January 8, 2001.The service began operations as a rural public
transit service in 2001 and continued as a rural system through the end of
2003.
At the beginning of 2004, Greene CATS began
operations as an urban public transit service.
The service
operates from 6AM to 9PM, seven days a week.
Service is
demand-responsive and flex-service.
The demand responsive service is curb-to-curb and
changes daily, depending on demand. The flex-service is travels a constant route
(with flag stops), but does deviate up to ¾ of a mile for persons with
disabilities. Greene County
is the primary service area for its demand
responsive public transit service. Service is also available to and from Montgomery and surrounding
counties. The demand responsive fare is $1.50 per one-way
passenger trip within
Greene
County and $6 outside of Greene
County.The
flex-service fare is .50 per on-way passenger trip. Greene CATS operates approximately
914,000 annual vehicle-miles and 45,000 annual vehicle-hours.The fleet
consists of 30 vehicles (29 wheelchair accessible light transit vehicles and
one sedan). All of the light transit vehicles are owned by Greene CATS.
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The Greene CATS public transit service
is open to the general public.
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Anyone is eligible to
ride the system.
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Most riders are
transportation-disadvantaged (elderly, disabled,
low-income, mental health, low auto ownership). Most
trip purposes are work and medical. Annual ridership (one-way passenger-trips) is
approximately 120,000. Demand
is high, but service is still limited, due to funding.There are approximately 400 trip denials per month.
Several social services agencies and other groups
contract for service and pay fully allocated costs.The primary purchasers of service are the Greene
County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities (MRDD) and the Greene County Department of
Job and Family Services (JFS).
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Finances: The
Greene County Board of Commissioners is the Designated
Recipient for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and
Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) urban public
transit funding.The Greene County Board of Commissioners selected
the Greene County Transit Board to be the Direct
Applicant for these funds.The Greene County Transit Board handles all of
its fiscal matters. All the financial audits for Greene CATS have
been excellent, with no negative findings.
Greene CATS
receives capital funding from the Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) and the Ohio Department of
Transportation (ODOT).Greene CATS receives contract revenues from MRDD
and JFS, as well as other agencies.
Greene CATS also receives fares for service, paid
by riders.
The County provides a wide range of in-kind
support, including: the use of the County’s fueling
depot, legal counsel from the County Prosecutor’s
Office, computer systems administration, use of the
County phone system, assistance by the Personnel Office
and overall guidance and advice.
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Accomplishments: The
most pressing issues facing Greene CATS are: |
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meeting the changing and increasing mobility
needs of the four main rider groups:
fare-paying riders, MRDD contract riders,
JFS contract riders and riders funded by
other social services agencies
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experimenting with new ways to provide public transit
service
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replacing
the aging fleet
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dealing with the increase in fuel prices
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maintaining a stable and healthy fiscal position
The Greene
County Transit Board looks forward to serving an
increasing number of riders in an even more efficient
and cost-effective manner.
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Questions?
Please call Rich Schultze, Executive Director,
at 937-562-6463 |
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To schedule a trip: Please call Scheduling at
937-562-6466 |
Greene CATS Productivity Report
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