Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Carolyn Bloede, Director, Department of Sustainability
Subject: Amendment to the Agreement with Edenred Commuter Benefit Solutions, LLC, Inc. to Provide Employee Commute Alternative Benefit Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the agreement with Edenred Commuter Benefit Solutions, LLC, Inc. to provide commute alternative benefit services, increasing the amount by $1,500,000 to an amount not to exceed $6,400,000 and extending the contract end date from May 13, 2024 to May 13, 2025.
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BACKGROUND:
On July 27, 1993 this Board established a $20 per month transit subsidy for County employees to help cover the cost of transit fares to "encourage employees to commute to work in a manner other than driving alone" (Resolution No. 057387). This subsidy also ensured compliance with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (BAAQMD) Regulation 14, Rule 1: Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program, which requires large employers to implement programs to reduce drive alone commutes and promote alternatives such as ridesharing and public transit. Drive alone travel has disproportionately large impacts on public health and climate change compared to most other types of travel. Reducing drive alone commutes reduces those negative impacts.
Over the past thirty years, this Board has recommitted to the goal of reducing drive alone commutes and has raised the transit subsidy several times. On July 23, 2019 the Office of Sustainability (OOS) brought forward a report to this Board for acceptance and to request guidance on proposed changes to the benefit levels in the Commute Alternatives Program (Shift) that the OOS administers. This Board accepted the report and directed OOS to raise the transit subsidy from its then value of $75 per month to its current value of $150 per month and to increase previously launched incent...
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