SouthEastern Arizona Governments Organization

Transit Program

SEAGO is required to update the Human Services Transportation Coordination Plan each year. This plan helps identify the future needs of each transit service area, and how we can better serve the Region through transit programs.
Download the SEAGO Coordination Plan 2008 Update at ADOT website

SEAGO provides technical assistance to SEAGO member entities, and local private non-profit organizations through a contract with the ADOT Public Transportation Division. This funding is used for transit operations throughout the region.
For information on transit activities in the SEAGO region, and other areas in Arizona go to Public Transportation Division Web site

The primary means of assistance from SEAGO is through the Section 5310, Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Program, and the Section 5311, Rural Public Transportation Program.

ADOT and Arizona Transit Association (AzTA) has partnered to provide a comprehensive rural transit needs study, and has been released as of March 2008.  If you would like to download the document click on the link below.
2008 Rural Arizona Transit Needs Study

Section 5310 Program

Download SEAGO 2007 5310 Awards List

The Section 5310 Program is a “Capital Assistance” program that provides funds to meet the special transportation needs of elderly persons, and persons with disabilities.

• Capital assistance is provided on an 80 percent federal, 20 percent local matching basis


• Vehicle-related equipment needed to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Clean Air Act Amendment (CAAA) requirements, is fundable on a 90 percent Federal, 10 percent local matching basis.


• Those eligible to receive Section 5310 funding include private nonprofit agencies, public bodies approved by the state to coordinate services for elderly persons, and persons with disabilities, or public bodies that certify to the Governor that no nonprofit corporations, or associations are readily available in the area to provide the service.

Anyone wanting to submit an application for a 5310 vehicle (or equipment), must first submit a ‘letter of intent’ to SEAGO’s transportation department.

SEAGO manages the annual application process for the Section 5310. Applications are usually available in February, and SEAGO hosts an application workshop each year to assist potential applicants with their applications.

Applications submitted to SEAGO are rated and ranked, and the results submitted to ADOT with a priority listing and recommendation for funding. ADOT has the final say on which applications are ultimately funded.

Section 5310 Handbooks and Applications can be downloaded from the Public Transportation Division Website. Remember, the new applications may not be available until February or March.

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Section 5311 Program

The Section 5311 program provides funding for public transportation in non-urbanized areas. Non-urbanized areas are classified as having under 50,000 in population.

• Funding may be used for capital, and requires a match that varies each application year.


• Funding for Administrative and/or operation expenses is a 50/50 percent match.


• Coordination with other federally assisted transportation services is encouraged, and income received through purchase of service contracts with human service agencies may be used as local match.

Applications for Section 5311 grants are submitted by the applicant directly to the ADOT Public Transportation Division each year, usually in April. SEAGO reviews all Section 5311 applications, and routinely sits on the statewide Section 5311 evaluation committee.  

Section 5311 Handbooks and Applications can be downloaded from the Public Transportation Division Website

Transit Programs for the SEAGO region include:

• Bisbee Bus http://www.azdot.gov/PTD/Bisbee.asp
• Sierra Vista- Vista Transit
• Douglas Transit System http://www.ccs-soaz.org/ccssa/transportation.html

SEAGO’s transportation staff is available to assist applicants with their Section 5311 applications, if desired.

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Section 5316 Program

Job Access and Reverse Commute program or JARC

JARC is a program under the Federal Transit Administration of the US Department of Transportation. The purpose of the JARC grant program is to assist states and localities in developing new or expanded transportation services that connect welfare recipients and other low-income persons to jobs and other employment related services. Job Access projects are targeted at developing new or expanded transportation services such as shuttles, vanpools, new bus routes, connector services to mass transit, and guaranteed ride home programs for welfare recipients and low-income persons. Eligible applicants include private non-profit organizations, State or local governmental authority, and operators of public transportation services including private operators of public transportation services.

Eligible activities for Job Access grants include capital, operating and planning expenses of services, equipment, facilities, and associated capital maintenance items related to providing access to jobs.

SEAGO Applications awarded in 2008

• Cochise County for the Handicapped was awarded two work vehicles
• Douglas ARC was awarded one work vehicle

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Section 5317 Program

New Freedoms

The purpose of the New Freedom grant program is to encourage services and facility improvements to address the transportation needs of persons with disabilities that go beyond those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Funds are available to support the capital and operating costs of new public transportation service targeted toward people with disabilities or public transportation alternatives that go beyond those required by the ADA.

Eligible recipients include private non-profit organizations, State or local governmental authority, and operators of public transportation services including private operators of public transportation services.

Catholic Community Services has been awarded the 2007 5317 grant, and is providing specialized transit services for the disabled within a specific rural area of Cochise County, linking them to the Sierra Vista Transit System.

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LTAF II

2009 LTAF II Apps are now available and are due to SEAGO September 12, 2008

  Download 2009 LTAF II App | Download 2009 LTAF II Timeline Memo

Local Transportation Assistance Fund II, or LTAF II, is funds generated by the State Powerball earnings, and distributed to each county and city within Arizona through an application awards process.  The following links provide the distribution amounts, the application, and application instructions.  Each entity that wishes to receive LTAF II funds for transit projects, MUST fill out an application, and submit it to SEAGO by the required date and be willing to provide a 25% match.

Download the SEAGO LTAF II 2008 Application List (PDF)

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