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21 1 Triangle Transit Attorney Wib Gulley went through the two agreements, the "do not levy 2 agreement" and the "cost sharing agreement." Regarding the Levy of Transit Sales Tax, it says 3 that this agreement does not indicate approval of the Board of County Commissioners of the 4 Orange County Transit Plan; it does not require the County Commissioners to schedule for a 5 referendum; but it does say that Triangle Transit will not levy the transit sales tax in Orange 6 County pursuant to Article 43 unless the Board of County Commissioners by Resolution 7 requests TTA to levy this tax. This is Attachment 4, page 41. 8 The Cost Sharing Agreement is on page 25 and is between Durham County, Orange 9 County, and Triangle Transit. 10 John Roberts said that this is the form that Durham County approved last night but is 11 not in the form the Board of County Commissioners discussed at its work session. 12 Wib Gulley reviewed the agreement points in the cost sharing agreement, which are 13 incorporated by reference. Orange County's part of the local share would be $316.2 million. 14 This reflects the percentages of 77.05% for Durham and 22.95% for Orange. 15 John Roberts made reference to page 26, sections 3 and 4, and said that this 16 document should incorporate all of the suggested changes in it with the exception of section 4. 17 Commissioner Gordon had asked for the fees to be specified. He said that Articles 50 and 51 18 in Chapter 105 specifically reference those fees and the authorization of those fees. Rather 19 than using House Bill 58 with the specific amounts, this section references Articles 50 and 51. 20 John Roberts made reference to section 3 and said that his previous email was related 21' to this. Durham County's Attorney, at the suggestion of its Manager, changed these 22 percentages to 76.05% and 23.95%, which is different. 23 Wib Gulley said that Durham County felt that the final proposal was to move $150,000 24 a year for the full life of the agreement, and changing the percentage would make this amount 25 more, and Durham did not agree to this. 26 John Roberts said that the percentages were negotiated by Commissioner Jacobs, 27 Chair Pelissier, Commissioner Yuhasz, and Durham County officials and staff. 28 Chair Pelissier said that the Board would finish hearing about the agreements, listen to 29 the public comment, and then consider the items one by one. 30 31 John Roberts said that the implementation agreement is an optional agreement and is 32 new. He said that he recommended for the County Commissioners to approve the cost sharing 33 plan subsequent to approving this agreement. He went through this agreement, which is 34 incorporated by reference. The funding sources include the Y-cent sales tax, a new$7.00 35 vehicle registration fee, and a $3.00 increase in the existing vehicle registration fee. 36 37 PUBLIC COMMENT: 38 Will Raymond said that this plan is still not firm enough to really move forward. He said 39 that they need to understand what is being provided for those dollars. There needs to be a firm 40 understanding of what the money will be used for. He is concerned that the public input is not 41 being considered in this plan. He said that the public continues to ask for an evaluation of the_ 42 15/501 versus 54 alignments in terms of at and economic impacts. There has been 43 no deliberation by the Board on this issue. He suggested shifting the focus to buses and 44 making a commitment to save for the light rail in the future. He would like to have an 45 explanation of where the missing community input is. He said that the community turned out for 46 the meetings and gave lots of great comments, but he does not see them. 47 Bonnie Hauser echoed Will Raymond's comments. She said that she is disappointed 48 for the citizens because so few people understand this plan. She said that transit only works if 49 it is convenient, and this plan is not convenient. 50