If a van is not available at the time requested, the dispatcher will then work with the customer to make a reservation at an acceptable alternate time. Tele-Transit vans provide about 150 trips to customers each day and travel an average of 1,000 miles per day. Implementation of the new computerized reservation and dispatch system for the Tele-Transit service has enabled us to increase reservations by approximately 25 percent. The new system takes reservations and assigns trips to the vans much more efficiently and effectively than the old manual system that had been in place since the old Handy Van service started in 1975. Over the years, the service hours and number of vans have increased in response to the need by area residents for more convenient, accessible demand response services.
Lifeguards are on duty during the hours the beach is open.
Rent the large pavilion for your next group get together. The City of Battle Creek and its partner, Leila Arboretum Society, have succeeded in earning a Tree City USA designation for its efforts to promote and protect trees within the City. On April 28, Mayor Mark Behnke, Vice Mayor Pete Bilbia, and George Weiss, president of the Leila Arboretum Society, assisted in the planting of a ceremonial tree in honor of the occasion as several Kingman Neighborhood residents looked on. The ceremonial planting took place the same day that volunteers and neighborhoods finished a 50-tree planting in the Kingman Neighborhood. The plantings began last fall and included crabtrees, Japanese tree lilacs, and flowering pear.