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Aging — OPT Receptionist <br />❑ There is a need to open more of the current human service routes to public ridership. 0 <br />Outcomes: <br />❑ Because this position will free time of the OPT Scheduler, the Scheduler will increase <br />OPT public ridership by expanding the number of current human service routes offering <br />such ridership from eight routes to 12 routes (about 50 percent) and increasing the public <br />passenger trips by 2,000 (from 4,000 to 6,000). <br />• Because this position will free time of the Hillsborough Facility Manager, the Facility <br />Manager will develop and promote senior center activities with the Friends of the Senior <br />Center for Central Orange. Specific activities would include set up and monitoring of off <br />site programs at the Sportsplex, Big Barn and Recreation and Parks Center such as bingo, <br />line dancing, pot lucks, strength training, and other classes. On site the Facility Manager <br />would be free to meet and encourage senior citizens participation in day trips, arts /crafts, <br />gardening, cards and special wellness speaker programs. <br />• Freeing the Facility Manager for the above activities also will secure the current grant <br />funding for the Facility Manager position. <br />Financial Impact: <br />Annual Position Costs <br />Annual <br />One Time <br />Offsetting <br />1999 -00 Position <br />(Salary/ Benefits) <br />Operating Cost <br />Start Up Cost <br />Revenue or <br />and Start Up Cost <br />Budget Savings <br />$26,370 <br />$520 <br />$2,662 <br />$26,597 <br />$2,955 <br />It is proposed the position be 90 percent grant funded and 10 percent County general fund. <br />The offsetting revenue is an approved Home and Community Care Block Grant. <br />Relation to Board Goal(s): Position relates to the Board's goal to maintain a comprehensive <br />transportation planning process for Orange County and to seek transportation alternatives for <br />citizens. <br />Manager's Comment: <br />The Manager plans to recommend the position be designated as a "Work First" position. <br />This would mean the position would be opened for recruitment only to Work First <br />participants and filled with a Work First candidate if a candidate can be identified with the <br />capability to perform the job duties. Failing filling the position with a Work First participant, <br />it then would be opened to recruitment under the County's normal recruitment process. <br />I: \peg99\report\agrep.doc <br />April 20, 1999 <br />• <br />