General Information

• Board Agenda - February 16, 2010 (pdf)
• Board Meeting Packet - February 16, 2010 (pdf)
• Board Meeting Minutes Archive
• Board Meeting Schedule
• Board Sub-Committees
• Kitsap Transit Board Members
• Transit Board Resolutions
• 2008-2014 Transit Development Plan (pdf)
• Kitsap Transit Fuel Graph 2005-2009 - Updated February 2010 (pdf)
• Transit 101 (pdf)
  

Why do we have a Kitsap Transit Board of Commissioners and what does it do?

On the third Tuesday of each month at 9:45 a.m., the nine-member Kitsap Transit Board of Commissioners meets for 90 minutes in the Council Chambers of the Norm Dicks Government Center in downtown Bremerton to consider a variety of topics, ranging from large purchases such as buying buses and software upgrades to policy issues such as the level of Routed or ACCESS service. Items that will cost more than $25,000 must go to the board for approval.

The Transit Board also considers items like:

• changes in fares or parking lot rates
• federal and state grant applications
• contracts with providers like Kitsap Harbor Tours for the Kitsap Transit Foot Ferry
• land purchases
• going out to bid and later awarding contracts for activities such as rebuilding bus or van transmissions, auto body repair, printing services for such items as new route schedules and professional services from architects and engineers.

Each month, the board receives written monthly progress reports on agency finances, ridership and fuel costs. The board also hears reports about upcoming/ongoing projects such as the Washington Green Bus Program, the federal TIP program, KT's participation in the regional Smart Card or ORCA program and the results of customer service surveys in ACCESS. The board also fulfills required duties like holding public hearings on required state reports like KT's Transit Development Plan or the required federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise plan.

Finally, the board provides direction in making or changing policies about topics such as Routed and ACCESS service levels, employee compensation, the extent to which the agency allows the use of VanLink vanpools, how KT provides Special Services and financial policies on topics like what constitutes a prudent reserve.

All board meetings are public and anyone may attend.

The men and women on the KT board get there by being elected to one of the following jobs: county commissioner (three spots; North, South and Central Kitsap) or mayor of one of the four cities; Bremerton, Port Orchard, Bainbridge Island or Poulsbo.  The last two spots on the transit board are filled each January by members of the Bremerton City Council who are chosen for those spots by the Bremerton council president.