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Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged The authority of the Commission derives from Chapter 427.011-017, Florida Statutues, and Rule 41-2, Florida Administrative Code.

Ensuring the coordination of transportation services for older adults, persons with disabilities and people with low income who are dependent upon others to access employment, health care, education and other life-sustaining activities. The Florida Legislature created the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged in 1989 "to accomplish the coordination of transportation services provided to the transportation disadvanted." The legislative goal for the Commission is "to assure the cost-effective provision of transportation by qualified community transportation coordinators or transportation operators for the transportation disadvantaged." The Commission is an independent state agency located within the Florida Department of Transportation for administrative and fiscal purposes. Otherwise, the Commission operates independently, with rule making and budget authority. The Commission consists of seven voting members all appointed by Florida's Governor, including five people from the business community and two who have a disability and use the Transportation Disadvantaged System. One of these members must be over 65 year of age. In addition, the Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of the Department of Children and Families, Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration, Executive Director of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, Director of the Agency for Workforce Innovation, Director of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, and a county manager or adminstrator serve as ex officio non-voting advisors to the Commission. The Commission employs thirteen staff based in Tallahassee to adminster and monitor the program.

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The Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged (Commission) is the state-level policy board responsible for overseeing the implementation of coordinated transportation disadvantaged services. To assist with implementing the program, the Commission contracts with a Community Transportation Coordinator and planning agency in each county. The local Community Transportation Coordinator is responsible for the arrangement and / or delivery of transportation services for transportation disadvantaged persons. The Community Transportation Coordinator, through a competitive process, may contract with local transportation operators to provide transportation for transportation disadvantaged persons. The Local Coordinating Board, appointed and staffed by the planning agency, oversees and annually evaluates the Community Transportation Coordinator. The Commission reviews and approves the evaluation of the Community Transportation Coordinator by the Local Coordinating Board. Local Coordinating Boards also provide assistance to the Community Transportation Coordinator by identifying local service needs and providing information, advice and direction to them on coordination of services.

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