QUESTION
What trips are allowed and prohibited under the current transportation contract?
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Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez clarifies that trips to medical appointments, grocery shopping, pharmacies, and other events are allowed under the current transportation contract, with no prohibited activities except limited 'portal to portal' trips.
- Trips to medical appointments, grocery shopping, and pharmacies are allowed.
- Trips to other activities and events are also permitted under the contract.
- There are no explicitly prohibited activities under the current contract.
- 'Portal to portal' trips, especially in transportation deserts, are limited and provided by local service providers.
Lynn C. Schulman
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Under the current contract terms, what sort of trips are allowed and prohibited from the transportation contract?
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Or it's just say that again.
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Under the current contract terms, what sort of trips are allowed and prohibited from the transportation contract?
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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The transportation program.
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Yeah.
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The con transportation, it is trips to I'll tell you in 2 seconds.
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It is trips to medical appointments Okay.
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To to grocery shopping.
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It is trips to pharmacies.
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It is trips for trips to other activities and events.
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There is no prohibited activity.
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The only thing that is limited, right, and has been quite limited.
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Is that portal, what I call the portal to portal, from the senior center to my home to my home to the senior center because those community based transportation programs if you're in a commute in a desert
Lynn C. Schulman
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are provided by the local service provider.
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K.