Greene CATS - About Greene CATS

571 Ledbetter Road
Xenia, Ohio 45385
Office Hours: Monday-Friday
8:00 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

About Greene CATS

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 CATS.

Currently: The following people serve as members of the Greene County Transit Board:
(Chairperson) Woody Stroud, (Vice-Chairperson) David Reid (Secretary-Treasurer) Tom Koogler, William Perrill, David Middleton, Anne Gerard, Bud McCormick Greene CATS staff consists of the Executive Director, Fiscal Officer, Transit Scheduler, Assistant Transit Scheduler, Transit Data Clerk. The appointing authority of the staff is the Greene County Transit Board. Staff is housed at 571 Ledbetter
Rd, 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.

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. 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 36 vehicles (35 wheelchair accessible light transit vehicles and one sedan). All of the light transit vehicles are owned by Greene CATS.

The Greene CATS public transit service is open to the general public.

Anyone is eligible to ride the system.

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 155,000. 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 Developmental Disabilities (DD) and the Greene County Department of Job and Family Services (JFS).

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.

Accomplishments: The most pressing issues facing Greene CATS are:

· 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

· experimenting with new ways to provide public transit service

· replacing the aging fleet

· dealing with the increase in fuel prices

· 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.

Greene CATS shall ensure that no person, on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual preference, religion, political affiliation, handicap or veterans status, shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any Greene CATS services, projects, programs or activities. For more information about this policy, or if you think you have been excluded, denied or discriminated against by Greene CATS, contact the Greene CATS Executive Director at 937-562-6463, 877-227-2287 (toll free), or rschultze@co.greene.oh.us. If you need this agenda package in an accessible format, if you require an interpreter at the meeting, or if you need this agenda package in a different language, please contact the Greene CATS Executive Director at the above phone numbers or email address.

Questions? Please call Rich Schultze, Executive Director, at 937-562-6463

To schedule a trip: Please call Scheduling at 937-562-6466