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Transit's sustainability and environmental leadership efforts, Mr. Williams noted <br /> their attempts to minimize waste, reduce energy consumption, and comply with <br /> state mandates including stormwater mitigation. Mr. Williams noted that <br /> preservation challenges included physical demands, vandalism, accidents and <br /> weather-related concerns. <br /> Mr. Williams displayed a map showing Roseville weekday boarding averages at <br /> bus stops currently without shelters. <br /> Mr. Lamb reviewed the criteria for designing and placing more shelters, with <br /> particular emphasis given to areas with specific concentrations of poverty and <br /> minority populations based on receipt of federal funding requiring certain <br /> situations for using that funding; and ongoing revisions of Metro Transit's capital <br /> program accordingly and considering criteria for other boarding stops. <br /> Mr. Lamb further reviewed the background used for boardings and shelters within <br /> the metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul area, with focus on areas with more <br /> density, such as shelters located for stops showing 40 or more boarders per day in <br /> urban areas, and 25+boarders per day in less dense suburban areas. If boardings <br /> show lower than 25 per day, Mr. Lamb noted that shelters are not typically <br /> considered at those sites due to the capital costs and extensive maintenance costs. <br /> Mr. Lamb noted that annual cost estimates for shelter maintenance were between <br /> $10,000 and $11,000 per shelter. With additional funding available for up to 150 <br /> new shelters, Mr. Lamb advised that Metro Transit was reviewing where best to <br /> place them, obviously as previously noted, often tied to federal funding and those <br /> areas showing higher poverty and/or minority populations. <br /> Member Lenz asked that Mr. Williams speak to physical accessibility of Metro <br /> Transit bus stops, providing various examples of concerns in that accessibility. <br /> Mr. Williams noted that maintaining accessibility at bus stops and/or shelters was <br /> always a challenge, and Metro Transit was attempting to implement a better bus <br /> stops program," similar to the highway "Adopt-a-Highway Program,"but instead <br /> an "Adopt-a-Shelter"program, seeking partners (e.g. businesses or private <br /> individuals) to monitor shelters or stops in their area to take on some of the daily <br /> maintenance (e.g. snow or trash removal, window cleaning, etc.). Mr. Williams <br /> reported one landscape firm in the south metropolitan area that had taken the <br /> charge to beautify shelters with plantings, and noted that by their taking on that <br /> shared ownership it provided significant assistance to Metro Transit in their <br /> efforts. Mr. Williams stated it was his hope to further expand that program. Mr. <br /> Williams noted that in some cases, it was beneficial to a business owner and <br /> Metro Transit if a shelter or stop may block their business or if their branding <br /> wasn't getting out to the street; and with this shared partnership, it allowed a <br /> participating business to bring their branding or identification into the shelter <br /> while using the Metro Transit's aesthetic. In exchange for letting them advertise <br /> Page 5 of 17 <br />