2025-04-17T08:47:33-05:00 2024-09-30 411397419 Abdo 5201 Eden Avenue Suite 250 Edina MN 55436 990 2023-10-01 843240474 Community Transit of Watertown Sisseton Inc COMM 6058825287 205 1st Ave NE Watertown SD 57201 Randy Tupper President 6058825287 2025-04-10 1 1 Steven D Anseth CPA P00552219 9528359090 2025-03-19 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Randy Tupper 205 1st Ave NE Watertown SD 57201 3633248 0 X www.communitytransitws.com X 2019 SD Provide safe, reliable public transit and promote livability and freedom through mobility. 12 12 98 8 0 0 2287033 2641898 983800 936222 29430 33899 0 0 3300263 3612019 0 0 0 0 1716734 1815293 0 0 0 1408686 1572156 3125420 3387449 174843 224570 3898828 4083201 177426 137229 3721402 3945972 X Community Transit is committed to providing coordinated transportation services to citizens in our service area by enhancing the quality of life, livability, self-sufficiency, and freedom through mobility. These goals are accomplished through the use of our core values - safety, teamwork, accountability, accessibility, customer service, and efficiency due to coordination. 0 0 2300137 936222 Our list of accomplishments would begin and end with the record number of rides we provided in fiscal year ending 2024. The fact Community Transit of Water Town Sisseton (CTWSI) provided 8,000 more rides than FY 2023 is amazing, but more impressive is the fact those rides were provided with the same high quality of service as in previous years. Bigger is not always better, especially if the quality of service suffers because of the growth. That did not happen in this case. Two areas of service CTWSI continues to take pride in are our medical transportation contracts and rides for veterans. Prairie Lakes Healthcare (PLH) and Watertown Area Transit (WATI) entered a contract for service in 2016. This agreement called for WATI to provide rides to and from all medical facilities in the city of Watertown and PLH would pay the fare. When CTWSI was formed in 2019, the contract remained in place. In November of 2024, CTWSI and PLH finalized a contract for a ninth year. PLH also agreed to an increase in fares at the request of CTWSI administrators. CTWSI is a South Dakota Medicaid provider and continues to provide rides for those sponsored trips to varied locations across the region. The most frequent destinations are Sioux Falls, Watertown, Aberdeen and Brookings in SD and Bismarck and Fargo, ND. Other destinations in SD have included Yankton, Redfield, Desmet, Milbank, Mobridge, Ipswich, Webster, Britton, Pierre, Mitchell and Rapid City. There have been trips booked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MM and the U. of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Indian Health Services has utilized CTWESI for medical trips in our service area. CTWSI signed an MOU with River Cities Transit in 2020 to transport Veterans as part of the Highly Rural Transportation Grant. This grant allows CTWSI to transport qualified veterans in the counties designated as highly rural (less than 7 people per square mile) to appointments in a variety of locations. The HRTG pays the fare to CTWSI for the rides. In our coverage area, Deuel, Clark, Day, Marshall, Spink, Faulk, McPherson and Campbell counties are considered highly rural.Our overall increase in ridership is considered an accomplishment because of the impact our service had in our communities. Overall, the CTWSI ridership increased by over 8,000 in one year - from 182,002 to 190,603. Watertown's ridership increased by 13,000 rides from 70,500 to 83,614. The biggest increase was in rides for employment, which became the leading category for transportation. Overall, education remains the largest category for riders followed by medical and employment rides. CTWSI became approved vendors for the Veterans Administration allowing us another avenue to serve veterans.Administrators continue to speak to any audience about the benefits and the workings of public transit. We assume the outreach we do is at least partially responsible for the large growth in ridership numbers. Social media is still our favorite source for advertising. We are in the process of revamping our website and are excited about the possibilities in the future. Word of mouth is still our most beneficial method of reaching the public and so we continue to be a face in the crowd as much and as often as possible.We are a member of the SD Transit Providers Association, Dakota Transit Association and Community Transportation of America. Co-Executive Director Kathy Holman was elected as the new president of the DTA in October. She replaced CTWSl's other Co-Executive Director Terry Hoffman in the same role. He completed a 9-year run on the board. 2300137 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 1 98 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 SD X X The Organization 6058825287 205 1st Ave NE Watertown SD 57201 Randy Tupper President 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Dave Gleason Vice President 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Brenda Hanten Treasurer/Secretary 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Hugh Bartles Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Scott Rau Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Marjean Gab Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Matthew Schuller Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Steve Smith Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Adam Hanson Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Dwight Hossle Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 William Tostenson Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Brian Heinecke Director 1.00 X 0 0 0 Kathy Holman Co-Executive Director 40.00 X 91262 0 0 Terry Hoffman Co-Executive Director 40.00 X 84013 0 0 175275 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2345551 296347 2641898 Ride Income 900099 361530 361530 Transportation Project 485000 298132 298132 Medicaid Income 900099 276560 276560 936222 24207 24207 30921 21229 9692 9692 9692 3612019 936222 0 33899 225018 160327 64691 1410069 1046821 363248 27877 15611 12266 152329 84980 67349 45000 45000 83701 83701 180357 180357 7012 7012 117355 99837 17518 50834 50834 16605 4907 11698 310204 263479 46725 449884 404896 44988 121066 91462 29604 Repairs and maintenance 119551 119551 Miscellaneous 67394 8266 59128 Dues and licenses 3193 3193 3387449 2300137 1087312 0 1412644 1511735 706405 538774 281786 138638 83538 139762 31683 47831 4045858 2353862 1368396 1691996 14376 14465 3898828 4083201 157922 137229 19504 177426 137229 X 3721402 3945972 3721402 3945972 3898828 4083201 224570 0 X X 0 1 X 1 1 1 X 2409504 2271128 2145008 2287033 2641898 11754571 2409504 2271128 2145008 2287033 2641898 11754571 11754571 6940 3737 3959 9882 24207 48725 5204 26185 19548 9692 60629 11863925 4298087 0.99080 0.99730 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 3880 3880 374467 10630 363837 3667511 2343232 1324279 1691996 3612019 0 3612019 0 3612019 3387449 0 3387449 0 3387449 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b Co-Executive Directors approve the 990, it is then presented to the Board at the next scheduled meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The conflict of interest policy is reviewed periodically to ensure no conflicts exist which have not already been disclosed and dealt with according to the policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a CTWSI directors negotiate Co-Executive Directors' wages with the board at the June Board meeting every year. This is also when the fiscal year budget is presented for approval along with driver wages and all operations expenses. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 All public documents are made available upon request. Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c: The board of directors assumes responsibility for the oversight of the audit.