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MEMORANDUm4 TO: C_a~barrus County Bo~d of Commissioners Mike Ruffin, County ;~anager FROM: Gerald A. PlannLng and Zoning Director DATE: JFu'lu~ry 16, 1991 RE: H~ring of Ecosometrics Inc. for the necessary revisions to the Cabarrus County Transportation Development Plan and its implementation R ~l-h~.R KS: The Cabarrus Countg Transportation Development Plan, adoptedin Februar~ 19~0 has be_aun the process of bringLng an efficient and quality filled public transportation program. The TDP laid out for increasing a program the level of sar%dca as well as detailing the org~u]izati0n of a county transportation program. Included in this plan ~s a four year operating and administrative funding plan which was based on current acti~ties being reasonably forecasted. The TDP also included in its implemenlation plan the creation and the strong use of a Board of Directors which would'relieve the Board of Conuulissioners of the responsibility of overseeing l~he program. Such a board was to set specific goals and objectives, examine privatization of the services, review the effectiveness of the Program, conduct annual reviews and update the TDP as necessary. In review of the past year, several of the plan's points have been initiated but many have yet to begin. On December 19, 1990, the County Manager conducted a meeting to d~scuss a major federal welfare reform program, known and JOBS, and impact on the ex~sting TDP. Th~s program will begin being implemented nation~de on July 1, 1991. In Cabarrus County the progrmm mandates a conversion of 'approximately 350 persons out of Aid to Families %~th Dependent Children and into an econor~ic self-support prog_ram, i.e. JOBS. One m~or element of the JOBS program involves tran sport ation. This will mean ~-u increase of transportation trips Ko be provided by the County of at least 250 by December 31, 1991. The program beg[ns on July 1, 1991 and we need to be ready. Under the current transportation plan we are not ready. The current transportat,~on services provided by the County are running at or near capacity, and the impact om these existing services by the JOBS program was not an~ctpated when the current TDP was developed and adopted. So that the County can prepar~ itself for the Impact of the JOBS program~ I w~ ddrected to explore and recoramend a solution to the situation. I have been Planning and Zoning Department P.O. Box 707 · Concord, NC 28026~)707 · P~anning: (704) 78&8141 · Zoning: (704) 78~8137