SERVICE AGREEMENT
This Agreement between The City of Nashua, a New Hampshire municipal corporation, 229
Main Street, Nashua, NH 03061 ("CITY"), the Souhegan Valley Transportation
Collaborative, a New Hampshire nonprofit corporation, P.O. Box 753, Hollis, NH 03043
(“SVTC") and Nashua Regional Planning Comission, a Regional Planning Commission
pursuant ta RSA 36:45-53, as fiscal agent for SVTC, 30 Temple Street, Suite 310, Nashua NH
03030 (“NRPC").
WHEREAS: CITY operates the Nashua Transit System (“NTS”) and has excess capacity to
provide Paratransit Servicas as described herein; and
WHEREAS: SVTC provides wheelchair accessible rides to non-emergency medical
appeintments and fo fulfill fundamental needs such as grocery shopping and essential personal
appointments to persons in need residing in any of the communities participating in the funding
of SVTC.
WHEREAS: CITY has been authorized by ifs Board of Aldermen and SVTC and NRPC have
been authorized by their respective Board of Directors to enter into this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE IT 1S AGREED by and between the parties, as follows:
DEFINITIONS SECTION
“Paratransit Service” includes NTS vehicies, drivers, monthly service reporting, other reporting
as described in this Agreement and call center operations. Paratransit Service also includes
NTS transportation to and from, but is not limited to, the fallowing for Qualified Riders:
o Healthcare appointments including but not limited to doctor visits, outpatient
services, counsaling, laboratory visits, pharmacies and dialysis
o Social service appointments including SHARE, DHHS and SSA
o Municipal offices including Town Halls and focal libraries in the participating towns
o Local community dining locations in participating towns sponsored by St Joseph
Community Services
co Local senior activity locations including the Milford Area, Hollis and Brookline
Saniors, the Parkhurst Place Community Room, and the Nashua Senior Activity
Center and Nashua YMCA
o Rides are available for shopping as scheduling and space allow throughout the
SVTC carnmmunities and Nashua.
co Local Courts in any of the participating towns or Nashua
o =©Rides to most destinations In the Sk Towns and Nashua will be accepted. Rides
to these other destinations and for shopping in Nashua and the Six Towns may or
may not be available on any given day due to availability in the daily schedule
o SVTC may submit written requests for modifications to scheduled service days or
dastinations with 21 days’ notice to NTS operations
"Holidays" shall mean: Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New
Year's Day and Memorial Day.
"Participating Towns” shall mean Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Milford, Mont Vernon, and Wilton,
New Hampshire.
