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‘Lost Van’ Not Lost
To the editor:
In response to Faye Crescenti’s recent letter appearing in the July 11 edition of the Rappahanvoek News entitled “Lost Van," we would like to correct any misimpressions created by the letter’s numerous misleading or false statements. Ms. Crescenti was probably remembering the days when she was the Rappahannock Site Coordinator and the Area Agency on Aging operated its own vehicles as a separate program.
For the past several years, the Community Services Center has operated a comprehensive transit system that provides 48 routes a day servicing the general public, contracted service to other agencies as well as transporting our own Center clients representing the disparate aging, mental health, retardation and substance abuse populations. Our funding for this system is primarily from the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation with additional support from a variety of other State agencies.
Ms. Crescenti is incorrect in stating these vehicles “belong to the people who ride them.” Since the vans are essentially paid for by all taxpayers in Virginia, the vehicles instead belong to the general public. Our Center and the 15-member Community Services Board responsible for this organization assume that the public is interested in these vans being operated in the most safe and cost efficient manner possible to benefit the greatest number of clients and consumers who use the system.
The Center operates 27 vehicles that are dispatched daily at the sole discretion of our Transportation Coordinator. Vehicles are matched to routes writh concern for mileage, van occupancy and vehicle condition. This assignment procedure is common to all
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