<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Support our cause. Anyone can sign. We just need e-mail and name. See below Thanks in advance.<div><br></div><div>Warmly,</div><div><br></div><div>Debbie Pittman</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Help fight upcoming RAP and TAP paratransit changes Sign our petition</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Petition link</span>: https://tinyurl.com/mrdkh2ky</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Join us as we fight paratransit changes. Sign our petition to show your support in our efforts to protect transportation services for people with disabilities.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">On June 12, 2025, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) adopted Ordinance 2025-26 approving an ADA Paratransit Action Plan, which includes proposed changes to the ADA Paratransit program to address the projected 2025 ADA Paratransit budget shortfall. The plan is to raise the cost of TAP and RAP trips from $2 to $3.25 and to limit the number of rides paratransit riders can take on RAP and TAP to 30 trips a month. This adoption of this Ordinance occurred without input from the disability community\u2014the very people it effects. Once again we take the position of \u201cNothing about us without us\u201d.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">We understand there is a short-fall, however, eliminating TAP and RAP rides to paratransit riders from four round trips a day (240 a month) down to one trip a day (30 trips a month) is an extreme cut, which will cause major capacity constraints to those utilizing TAP and RAP services, in light of the driver shortages experienced within the carriers for standard paratransit services. Furthermore, this will cause paratransit riders to end up being stranded if they are only allowed to take \u201cone\u201d ride a day with no subsequent return trip.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">The TAP program has been in place for approximately 20 years and the RAP program since the pandemic, and paratransit riders depend extremely heavily on those services as a reliable source of transportation for people with disabilities. We understand there is a chance of raising fares for TAP and RAP since those prices were lowered during the pandemic. However, the elimination of available services would be detrimental to the disability community who use paratransit.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">We are strongly recommending that RTA and Pace come up with a more viable plan to make up the short-fall deficit that is less harmful to the paratransit riders.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Cordially,</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><br></p><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 22, 2025, at 2:58\u202fPM, Christopher Sabine via Ohio-Communities-of-Faith <ohio-communities-of-faith@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff
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