Sec. 13b-38bb. State matching grant program for elderly and disabled demand responsive transportation. Allocations. Requirements. Data collection.
Sec. 13b-38bb. State matching grant program for elderly and disabled demand responsive transportation. Allocations. Requirements. Data collection. (a)
The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a state matching grant program, in
accordance with the provisions of this section, which shall be available to any municipality upon application of such municipality. Such grants shall be expended by such municipalities for elderly and disabled demand responsive transportation programs that shall
be available to persons age sixty or older.
(b) Not later than thirty days after the commissioner determines an allocation
amount, the commissioner shall notify municipalities of the availability of such amount.
(c) Municipalities shall apply to the state through a designated regional planning
organization or transit district for funding allocations. The regional planning organization or transit district and municipalities interested in applying for the funds shall collaborate on service design to determine how to use the funding most effectively in that
municipality and its surrounding region. The commissioner shall have the authority to
approve or disapprove the method for delivery of service.
(d) The maximum amount allocated to a municipality shall be determined by the
commissioner in accordance with the following formula: Fifty per cent of such funds
shall be apportioned on the basis of the share of the population of persons age sixty or
older in the municipality relative to the state's total population of persons age sixty or
older, as defined in the most recent federal decennial census or in estimates provided
in the five-year interim by the Office of Policy and Management. Fifty per cent of such
funds shall be apportioned on the basis of a municipality's square mileage relative to
the state's total square mileage.
(e) Each municipality applying for such grant funds shall provide a fifty per cent
match to such funds. If a municipality chooses not to apply for such funds, its portion
shall revert to the Special Transportation Fund.
(f) A municipality, receiving a grant provided pursuant to this section, shall annually
submit to the Commissioner of Transportation, on forms provided by said commissioner,
the following data on such transportation programs: (1) The number of unduplicated
riders; (2) the number of one-way trips; (3) the number of miles traveled; (4) the number
of trip denials; (5) the number of hours vehicles are in use annually; (6) all federal, state,
municipal and other revenues received and expenditures incurred in the provision of
dial-a-ride services; and (7) any other information determined to be necessary by the
commissioner.
(g) A municipality receiving a grant pursuant to this section shall annually submit
to the Commissioner of Transportation a certification that any state grant shall be in
addition to current municipality levels of spending on such programs.
(h) Any funds shall only be expended for grants and administrative costs and shall
not be expended for any other purpose.
(P.A. 99-265, S. 4; P.A. 00-148, S. 22; P.A. 02-123, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-4, S. 39.)
History: P.A. 00-148 made technical changes, amended Subsec. (a) by making the state matching grant a program,
amended Subsec. (b) by replacing "a grant" with "an allocation", added new Subsec. (c) re application process for allotted
funds and redesignated Subsecs. (c) to (g), inclusive, as Subsecs. (d) to (h), inclusive; P.A. 02-123 amended Subsec. (c)
to eliminate references to "within the transportation service region, as established in section 13b-38m," and "allocated to
municipalities within that transportation service region" and to change "municipality and region" to "municipality and its
surrounding region", effective June 7, 2002; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-4 amended Subsec. (a) to delete references to deadlines
for establishing program and to establishing program within available General Fund appropriations, amended Subsec. (e)
by changing General Fund to Special Transportation Fund, and amended Subsec. (h) to remove reference to appropriated
funds and specify that funds shall only be expended for grants and administrative costs, effective July 1, 2005.
See Sec. 13b-57s re funding for grants-in-aid and administrative expenses for program.