Ames Federal Employees Union

(sent from our ACAP rep)

Are you tired of rising gas prices and increasing traffic?  Do you want to do more for the environment? Then make a New Year’s resolution to start using mass transit to get to work once or more per week. Ames has a Shuttle Bus for transit commuters that meets designated trains at the Mt. View Caltrain Station in the mornings and afternoons (see http://js.arc.nasa.gov/jsl/shuttle.html). VTA also runs the #51 bus from the train station to Ames and back.

As a Civil Servant, you are eligible for $100 PER MONTH off your monthly transit ticket! For example, the net cost of a ticket between San Francisco and Mt. View per month is only $52.50/month after the subsidy has been applied.  Think about how little gasoline you can buy with $52.50 these day. This subsidy applies to tickets purchased for almost any transit agency in the region.

You don’t have to use mass transit every day — even commuting by mass transit only one or two days per week, it still makes sense to purchase a subsidized monthly ticket. Do the math!

The Transit Subsidy Program is run by the NASA Ames Exchange. Transit tickets are sold at Beyond Galileo, in the Ames Cafeteria. Civil servants can purchase monthly tickets during the last week of each month receiving a $100/month subsidy. To qualify for the $100/month subsidy you must fill out an initial application form in advance.

Don’t miss out on this free $1200/year benefit! For more information, visit: http://js.arc.nasa.gov/jsl/tickets.html

The membership voted on Dec. 5 to adopt a set of revisions to the Constitution that clarified rules on elections procedures, requiring nominations and acceptance of nominations to be at one of the two membership meetings preceding an election. Also, special elections no longer allow write-in candidates, allowing for election by acclimation when a candidate for an office is running unopposed, possibly reducing the work required to run special elections.