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RGP: *Excludes the boundaries. 45% based upon the number of Work First caseloads per county as a percentage of the number of Work First caseloads in the state as of January 1, 2004. 50% divided equally among all eligible counties; and 50% based upon the rural population of each county as a percentage of the total state rural population. * municipal population for counties with urbanized areas within their Eligible Recipients All one hundred (100) North Carolina counties are eligible to receive a formula-based allocation for EDTAP and Work First/Employment. Only those counties providing transportation services to the general public will receive a RGP allocation. Funds will be disbursed only to the county finance officer with the exception that discretionary RGP funds may be distributed to the region transportation system. Please note that the county can request an amount less than the total allocation for each of the three programs. Each applicant should carefully evaluate past program expenditures to determine the amount to apply for within each program. The county finance officer will be responsible for program administration at the local level. As the recipient of the funds, the county is responsible for monitoring the use of funds that are passed through to local agencies (i.e. DSS, Community Transportation System, etc.). Local Matching Requirement Funding for EDTAP and Work First/Employment will be provided with one hundred percent (100%) state funds and no local match. State RGP funds may be used to provide up to ninety percent (90%) of the fully allocated cost of each general public trip. The remaining ten-percent (10%) must be provided from fares, local funds or a combination of the two. In past years, the local match requirement for the RGP program has at times been confusing. In an attempt to avert this confusion, an example is provided to help systems determine what the local match needs to be. The chief source for the misunderstanding is that the ten percent local match requirement is based on the fully allocated cost of the program, not the amount allocated from DOT. For example, if a county is allocated $45,000 for RGP, the local match is not ten percent of that amount, or $4,500. Instead, the $45,000 is the cost at ninety percent of the fully allocated cost. To compute the fully allocated cost, divide the $45,000 by 90%, or 0.9. The result is the fully allocated cost of the program, which computes to $50,000. To determine your local match, multiply this amount by 0.1. Doing so nets a local match of $5,000.