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<br /> Community Transit’s Vaccine Mandate: January 1, 2022 - March 6, 2023
<br />Impact on Workforce, Existing Service, and Service Growth Plans
<br />Vaccine Mandate v. Covid Cases
<br />Before Mandate, 2021
<br />After Mandate, 2022
<br />Highest month, Sept.: 23 cases
<br />2021 total: 80 cases
<br />First month, Jan.: 69 cases
<br />2022 total: 292 cases
<br />MANDATED - All Employees
<br />EXEMPT - All Contractors
<br />• Drivers
<br />• Mechanics
<br />• Administrative staff
<br />• First Transit, operating
<br /> CT commuter service
<br /> Sound Transit service
<br />• TransDev, operating
<br /> CT DART paratransit service
<br />• Sno. County Sherriff’s officers,
<br />providing transit police services
<br />10% of the workforce (~80) were
<br />fired or left close to January 2022.
<br />Of those, almost 40 were drivers.
<br />1 driver = 1,000 service hours
<br />The vaccine mandate derailed
<br />promised growth plans
<br />CT set March 2023 as the new baseline
<br />for service, at 363,000 hours.
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<br />This is lower than the 2017 baseline,
<br />when the Prop 1 sales tax increase
<br />kicked in, and service was promised to
<br />grow to 510,000 service hours by 2022.
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<br />The 2021 adopted TDP had planned
<br />520,000 service hours by 2024.
<br />Late Feb. 2023, through a draft resolution, Snohomish County Council
<br />nudged CT CEO Ric Ilgenfritz to drop the vaccine mandate. He announced
<br />the mandate lift at the March 2, 2023 Board of Directors meeting, to be
<br />effective March 6, 2023.
<br />Mandates in Snohomish County
<br />Public Comments to the
<br />CT Board of Directors
<br />Impact on Service
<br />Title VI
<br />Public
<br />Process?
<br />In the News
<br />Public Comments to the
<br />Snohomish Co. Council
<br />• June 2, 2022 min 7:59
<br />• July 7, 2022 min 2:21
<br />• August 4, 2022 min 8:54
<br />• Sept. 1, 2022 min 6:16
<br />• October 6, 2022 min 5:12
<br />• Nov. 3, 2022 min 10:23
<br />• Dec. 1, 2022 min 16:20
<br />• Jan. 5, 2023 min 2:28
<br />• Jan. 19, 2023 min 1:59
<br />Dropped Trips
<br />(scheduled but canceled the day of service)
<br />• Feb. 21, 2023 min 5:04
<br />• March 8, 2023 min 4:32
<br />Everett Transit, Skagit Transit, Island
<br />Transit (serving Everett Station), local
<br />municipalities, along with Snohomish
<br />County government did not impose a
<br />vaccine mandate.
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<br />Pre-pandemic service
<br />hours, 2019: 480,000
<br />Service hours in
<br />Oct. 2021: 426,000
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<br />Service cuts:
<br />March 2022: - 34,000
<br />Sept. 2022: - 8,000
<br />March 2023: - 21,000
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<br />Total cuts: 63,000 hours
<br />(15% of service)
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<br />Service hours in
<br />March 2023: 363,000
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<br />Yes
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<br />In a Dec. 26 2021 article, CT CEO
<br />Ric Ilgenfritz told the Everett Herald
<br />that “service shouldn’t be affected”
<br />by the mandate.
<br />Cuts said to be temporary, Feb.
<br />24.2022. Service might be restored in
<br />the summer or fall. Schedule books
<br />no longer printed.
<br />Driver shortage is at fault for cuts,
<br />Nov. 28, 2022.
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<br />CT boasted of a 32% service increase
<br />by 2026 to 480,000 service hours,
<br />Feb 12, 2023.
<br />2021: 2,128
<br /> Jan-Nov avg: 3.2 trips /day
<br /> Dec avg: 33.6 trips/day
<br />2022: 12,248
<br /> Jan-Nov avg: 29.2 trips/day
<br /> Dec avg: 81.5 trips/day
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