PACT Forum
PACT Forum Mission
PACT Forum Responsibilities
State Programs Represented on the PACT Forum
PACT Membership
PACT Forum Work Plan
PACT Meetings
PACT Forum Mission
The Program for Agency Coordinated Transportation Forum (PACT Forum) is a supporting council to ACCT working on policy implementation. The PACT Forum facilitates a statewide approach to coordinating special needs transportation and supports the development of community based coordinated transportation systems. The purpose of the PACT Forum is to improve special needs transportation through coordination and providing more rides within existing funds. PACT is an ongoing work group consisting of representatives from state programs that:
- Provide or fund transportation programs
- Purchase transportation on behalf of clients
- Arrange transportation for clients
- Provide social, health, educational or other services to persons with special transportation needs
PACT Forum Responsibilities
The Forum has the following responsibilities with regard to the coordination of special needs transportation:
- Serve as an information clearinghouse
- Advocate for special needs transportation
- Provide a regular place and time for state agencies to discuss and resolve issues
- Create guidelines for state agencies to use in developing consistent policies, rules, and procedures
- Analyze policy issues and proposed legislation and make recommendations to the Council
- Apply for grants and other funding to enhance the state's ability to fund coordination activities
- Resolve barriers and solve problems as they are referred to the Forum by communities or by the ACCT Council
- Develop the products required by the 1999 ACCT legislation transportation impact statement
- A mechanism to identify and track expenditures
- Performance measures
- Reporting criteria
- Evaluation methods
- Consistent minimum standards for drivers and vehicles
- A methodology for allocating costs when rides are shared
State Programs Represented on the PACT Forum
- Community, Trade, and Economic Development
- DSHS Departments:
- Aging and Adult Services Administration
- Alcohol and Substance Abuse
- Children's Administration
- Developmental Disabilities
- Medical Assistance
- Mental Health Division
- Vocational Rehabilitation
- Work First and Welfare to Work
- Employment Security
- Governor's Office of Financial Management
- Governor's Office of Indian Affairs
- Head Start
- Department of Health, Rural Health
- Superintendent of Public Instruction, Pupil Transportation
- Transportation Improvement Board
- Veteran's Affairs
- WSDOT Public Transportation Office
PACT Membership
A complete listing of current PACT members is available here.
PACT Forum Work Plan
A plan for implementing the provisions of the ACCT legislation was passed in the 1999 legislative session and codified in RCW 47.06B. The Forum members prioritized the implementation elements as ongoing and priority.
Ongoing
- Provide a forum at the state level in which state agencies will discuss and resolve coordination issues and program policy issues that may impact transportation coordination and costs.
- Facilitate state-level discussion and action on problems and barriers identified by the local forums that can only be resolved at either the state or federal level.
- Form, convene and give staff support to stakeholder work groups as needed to continue work on removing barriers to coordinated transportation.
- Recommend to the legislature changes in laws to assist coordination of transportation services.
Prioritized List
- Provide guidelines for state agencies to use in creating policies, rules, or procedures to encourage the participation of the agency and its constituents in community based planning and coordination.
- Advocate for the coordination of transportation for people with special transportation needs at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Develop guidelines for setting performance measures and evaluating performance.
- Develop monitoring reporting criteria and processes to assess state and local level of participation in transportation coordination.
- Facilitate, monitor, provide funding as available, and give technical support to local planning processes.
- Provide technical assistance and support to communities.
- Develop and test models for determining the impacts of facility siting and program policy decisions on transportation costs.
- Develop minimum standards for safety, driver training, and vehicles;
- Provide models for processes and technology to support coordinated services delivery systems.
- Develop methodologies and provide support to local and state agencies in identifying transportation costs.
- Promote research and development of methods and tools to improve the performance of transportation coordination in the state.
- Provide a clearinghouse for sharing information about transportation coordination best practices and experiences.
- Petition the office of financial management to make whatever changes are deemed necessary to identify transportation costs in all executive agency budgets.
PACT Meetings
The PACT Forum meetings are typically held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The meetings are open to the public and a comment period is reserved for questions or concerns.
PACT meetings are held at:
Capital Conference Room (3F21)
Department of Transportation Building
310 Maple Park Avenue SE
Olympia, Washington 98504
Map to Meeting Site
The PACT meeting location is accessible. Sign language interpreter services, assistive listening systems, and communication materials in alternative format are available upon advance request. If you have any questions about the PACT Forum meetings, please contact the ACCT Secretary at (360) 705-7846.
