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Coborrus County Transportation Services (CCTS) Finol Report — September 2015 contract is lost therefore no revenue is programmed for ADA contract in years 2017 -2020. The County Manager has been alerted that CK Rider Transit has issued a call for 5310 applications. The County has been advised that only projects contained in the Locally Coordinated Human Service / Public Transportation Plan (LCP) are eligible for funding. The CTSP recommended that a new coordination summit be organized immediately to capture this opportunity. The plan also includes funding for a full blown LCP in year 2019 the next CTSP to be done in 2020. MARKETING RECOMMENDATIONS The plan calls for $3,000 to be spent on promoting the new initiatives, in addition to the $7,000 per year that CCTS spends on marketing. The recommendation to employ a Mobility Manager using rural 5310 funding — is principally designed around identifying and promoting new markets to utilize 5310 rural funding. Through the study process staff expressed the opinion that there was not enough of a market for RGP and 5310 trip making, hence the return of $22,000 in RGP funds last year and the decision not to accept the 5310 funding in FY15. This perception needs to be dispelled via an aggressive campaign launched by a mobility manager, who is trained to find and deliver rural transit opportunities. DYNAMIC FINANCIAL PLAN AND BUDGET TOOL The following assumptions have been incorporated into the financial plan and digital budget tool: • Projected federal, state and local grant funding assistance programs, (5311, 5310, ROAP, etc) per CTSP project recommendations. Each CTSP project recommendation has been clearly defined by specific funding splits (Federal, State and Local). Note also the recommendation to leverage 5310 funding at the 80/20 split level rather than the 50/50 split used in the past. • Time was allocated while on -site for the final steering committee meeting, to allow the Transportation Manager to familiarize himself with the budget tool. This is done so he can update any future budget changes in funding levels, service priorities, or other factors that could affect the transit system funding needs. • The dynamic model required the use of "G" coded expended line item expense, revenue and capital budgets as bases provided by transit agency for developing 3 year trend and base case funding scenarios and fully allocated cost model. The OpStats were not be used as the financial model base line data source. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN The current fleet of vehicles would be replaced on a useful life replacement schedule over the five- year period but no expansion vehicles would be sought. The schedule is to have three vehicles Attachment number 1 \n F -3 Page 202