Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board
The purpose of the Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board(TD LCB) is to help identify local service needs and to provide information, advice and direction to the Community Transportation Coordinator (CTC) on the coordination of services to be provided to the transportation disadvantaged.
Transportation disadvantaged persons are considered those who, because of physical or mental disability, income status or age, are unable to transport themselves or to purchase transportation and are therefore dependent upon others to obtain access to health care, employment, education, shopping, social activities or other life-sustaining activities, or to children who are handicapped, high risk or at risk.
A variety of local agencies and interest groups related to transportation disadvantaged persons are voting members on the 19-person board.
The authority and duties of the Polk County Transportation Disadvantaged Coordinating Board are set forth in Chapter 427 of the Florida Statutes and Rule 41-2 of Florida Administrative Code.
The Committee
Chairperson
- Commissioner Jeremy Clark
Vice-Chairperson
- Marcia Staszko, Representative for Elderly Population
Voting Members
- Commissioner Jeremy Clark
- Marcia Staszko, Representative for Elderly Population
- Dale Hanson, Representative for Florida Department of Transportation
- Coleen Collinsworth, Department of Children and Families
- Lisa Miller, Representative for Public Education / School Board
- Katie Kummer, Representative for Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
- Joseph Lesniewicz IV, Representative for Polk County Veteran’s Services
- Brenda Grella, Citizen Advocate #1
- Sheryl Brown, Citizen Advocate for Lighthouse for the Blind
- Tiara Dasher, Representative for Children at Risk
- Mayor Pro-Tem Nat Birdsong (Polk Transit Authority), Representative for Mass Transit
- Kevin Gilds, Representative for Florida Department of Elderly Affairs
- Vacant, Representative for Local Private Transportation Operators
- Riley Larsen, Representative for Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
- Jeanette Estes, Representative for Agency With Persons for Disabilities
- Stacy Campbell-Domineck, Representative for Regional Workforce Development Board
- Joy Johnson, Representative for Local Medical Community (Polk Health and Human Services Administrator)
Meetings
TD LCB meetings are held in the County Commission Boardroom, first floor of the County Administration Building, 330 W. Church St., Bartow.
Polk Government TV
Watch all meetings on-demand or via live broadcast on PGTV online or your cable-access channel.