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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From the desk of Joe Ruffalo, President, NFBNJ. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Received from Linda Melendez, First Vice President, NFBNJ. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Distributed by Ellen Sullivan, Secretary, NFBNJ. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Attention Central Jersey Seniors and People who have Disabilities: Your region’s local para transit public hearing date is coming up -- December 12! (This is NOT Access Link – it’s for your LOCAL share ride service). Counties in the Central Region are Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset and Union. I will be attending the 2:00 pm public hearing. See location details below:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>LOCATION: Monmouth Agricultural Building Region Conference Room, #1<br>4000 Kozloski Road Freehold, NJ 07728 <br>DATE: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 <br>TIMES: 2:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. <br>Destination is Access Link Accessible</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ TRANSIT) is conducting public hearings to gather information and receive comments from interested parties concerning programs developed pursuant to the Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program (SCDRTAP) Act. A hearing will be held in each geographic region in accordance with Section 5 of P.L. 1984 c.578 of SCDRTAP. Each hearing will have an afternoon and evening session. The locations are Freehold, Westampton, and Newark. An Access Link para transit update will NOT be provided at these hearings. Access Link holds separate Customer Forums.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>What does this mean?<br>Each county has a local para transit system that provides service under “The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program”. Seniors and disabled residents can register with their local para transit system and make reservations to go to a doctor’s office, hospital, food shopping or various other stores and business locations within your county even if there is no NJ Transit bus route. Days and times of service vary from county to county.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Attend this hearing to ask questions or address any issues you are experiencing. In order to assure that all members of the public are given an opportunity to be heard, presentations and comments will be limited to five minutes. Written comments for the record may be sent to Public Hearing Comments 2018, New Jersey Transit Corporation, One Penn Plaza East, Newark, New Jersey 07105-2246, or via email </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%'><a href="mailto:publichearings@njtransit.com" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue'>publichearings@njtransit.com</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>by December 28, 2018.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>