Tuesday's RTD Board meeting

Just a reminder that tonight [Tuesday] is the RTD board meeting on the future of EcoPass. If any of you can make it to the meeting, that is the only way RTD is accepting public comments regarding this particular issue. Please see the message below from Andrea, the coordinator of the Neighborhood EcoPass Program.

Also, be aware that we are set for this next year, so no matter what the board decides tomorrow, we can still get passes for 2009 (and we need to have our money to RTD in October to guarantee getting our passes by year's end -- you should have received your 2009 fundraising flyer in the mail today). The freeze in the program referred to below refers to freezing neighborhood expansion. The [potential] entire elimination would come in 2010.

I encourage any of you who can attend tomorrow to go and object to the 2010 elimination of the EcoPass program.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Kariane

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Dear Neighborhood Eco Pass Coordinators:

I know most of you received the message below from Martha last week, but I am again encouraging you and all your friends, relatives and neighbors to come to Tuesday, September 30th's RTD Board meeting. The outlook at the moment is grim at best for the NECO Pass program. It is essential that we convince the board not to approve the RTD staff proposal. As Martha mentioned "The word on the street is that next Tuesday evening, the RTD board will vote on a proposal to freeze the Neighborhood Eco Pass program for a year, THEN ELIMINATE IT ENTIRELY the next year." This is not acceptable.

The board meets at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30th at RTD Headquarters at 1600 Blake Street, just west of the Market Street Station. The plan is to gather outside the building at 5:00, then move inside at 5:30. There will be an opportunity to comment at the meeting; comments are not being accepted through any other means.

At a study session this week, the Board noted that it received over 2000 comments on the last proposal. While a few Board members appear to have been affected enough by the comments to favor not changing the Eco Pass program right now, a majority appears to be leaning towards accepting the staff proposal.

Please plan to come, and bring your neighbors, as a good turnout at the meeting may impact the decision.

PS--my e-mail has not been working much today, if you need me tomorrow please don't hesitate to call me.



Best Wishes,

Andrea


Andrea Kaufman Robbins
GO Boulder/city of Boulder
Transportation Planner
robbinsa@bouldercolorado.gov
303-441-4139 (phone)
303-817-0895 (cell)
303-441-4271 (fax)