This is an FFY 2021 section 5310 crrssa… (TN2022009) – Formula Grant to Knoxville-Knox County Planning

Activities: The following activities will be performed.knoxville knox county CAC VAT program with the crrssa funds requested three temporary employees will be hired to help the program in a variety of ways. The main focus will be providing trips to help meet the high-level of service requests allowing the full-time staff to concentrate on administering the overall program and boosting volunteer recruitment. Volunteer drivers are the life blood to any volunteer assisted driver program. However when not providing trips the temporary staff can help with cleaning and maintaining the agency owned vehicles training information dissemination and volunteer recruitment. The funding also helps provide supplies training fuel and other expenses. As noted the CAC VAT program provides agency owned cars for the volunteers to use (instead of their own) and therefore the program purchases fuel for those automobiles.blount county CAA smiles program - with the crrssa funds being requested a part-time staff member will be added as a backup driver with the ability to also perform various office and outreach duties. The additional staff person will allow smiles to reduce the number of people on the waiting list. The part-time person can also assist with volunteer recruitment. And by taking pressure off of the full-time staff they can focus more on administering the overall program and volunteer driver recruitment. Volunteer drivers are the life blood of any volunteer assisted driver program. The infusion of funding can help increase capacity of smiles and meet the need for the growing demand for senior-friendly transportation. Ethra with the crrssa funds requested ethra will provide additional demand response transportation services for seniors and/or individuals with disabilities who live in the outer portions of the knoxville urbanized area. In these areas there are very little other transportation options. In addition the funding will help offset the unexpected higher costs of: purchasing personal probative equipment (PPE) additional vehicle cleaning and disinfecting absences of staff due to covid-19 and limited vehicle capacity due to physical distancing.3).
Expected outcomes: The following outcomes are expected:knoxville knox county CAC VAT program in total the CAC VAT program was awarded $141350 from the crrssa and ARP knoxville urban area funding. This crrssa grant will provide the CAC VAT program $39359 (27.8%) and $101991 (72.2%) and will come from a companion ARP grant. The total CAC VAT application to the TPO/MPC for this project stated IT will help provide additional services for approximately 12 months. This will include providing 160 additional monthly trips to an additional 40 riders. So when prorated by the percentages this crrssa funding will provide 44 additional monthly trips to an additional 11 riders. By having the additional workers the main staff can concentrate on administering the overall program and volunteer recruitment. IT is a goal that CAC VAT will be able to recruit an additional 40 volunteers (prorated for this crrsa grant to 11 volunteers). Blount county CAA smiles program the crrssa funding will help provide additional services for approximately 12 months. The funds will help eliminate the waiting list for services which has 42 people on IT the longest list ever experienced by the program. The part-time person can also assist with volunteer recruitment with a goal to add 20 new volunteers. The funding will also help the overall smiles program budget which lost several fund-raising opportunities due to covid-19. Another tangential benefit is 60 homebound seniors will receive vital groceries from volunteer drivers helping to address food insecurities. These volunteer divers are willing to return to the program in a partial way in that they will help with errands but they are not ready to transport clients one-on-one in an automobile.ethra the crrssa funds will help provide additional demand-response transportation over an approximate 12-month period. Ethra will provide an additional 1867 unlinked passenger trips for seniors and/or individuals with disabilities who meet the section 5310 guidelines. The project will serve individuals within the knoxville urbanized area of anderson blount knox loudon and sevier counties. This funding will include the costs of any additional personal probative equipment (PPE) and vehicle cleaning.4).
Intended beneficiaries: Seniors and/or persons who are disabled in the knoxville tennessee UZA.5). Sub-recipient activities: 100% of this funding will be distributed (by sub-award) to three different sub-recipients. The sub-recipients are:1.knoxville knox county CAC volunteer assisted transportation (VAT) program located at 2247 western avenue knoxville TN 37921. The knoxville knox county CAC VAT program is a long-term section 5310 sub-recipient of the TPO/MPC and is in good standing with the overall program management plan requirements (sub-award of $39359)2.blount county CAA smiles program located at 3509 tuckaleechee pike maryville TN 37803. The blount county CAA smiles program is a long-term section 5310 sub-recipient of the TPO/MPC and is in good standing with the overall program management plan requirements (sub-award of $20623).3.east tennessee human resource agency (ethra) located at 9111 cross park drive suite d-100 knoxville TN 37923. Ethra is a long-term section 5310 sub-recipient of the TPO/MPC and is in good standing with the overall program management plan requirements (sub-award of $42008).

Action	Obligated	Date
Amendment	-$1	Sep 10, 2025
Original award	$101,990	Mar 12, 2022

This is an FFY 2021 section 5310 crrssa funding application (knoxville tennessee UZA) in the amount of $101990 representing 100% federal share of the total eligible amount

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