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Commissioner Gordon voted against it because most of Paragraph 8 was eliminated without much consideration. Commissioner Yuhasz said that this is allowing the opportunity to use all of the money to support existing services. He is not sure that this was the intent. Commissioner Hemminger asked that the signatory page spell out all of the group names instead of using abbreviations. Commissioner McKee suggested having this brought back as a clean copy at the next regular meeting to vote on it. Commissioner Hemminger said that the clean copy will be put forth with the minutes. Commissioner Gordon reminded the Board that the Bus and Rail Plan also needs to be approved. A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to approve the amended implementation agreement as discussed in this meeting including all changes in red, with the exception of paragraph 8, which was greatly modified as follows: most of paragraph 8 was deleted except for the last sentence which now reads: Any change in use of bus service funds in the Plan from support of new services to support of existing services may be made on a temporary or permanent basis, must be agreed to by all of the Parties, and must comply with State law; add "annual" in the document in 16-D; and throughout the document add the word "all" to "parties" so it reads "all of the parties", where appropriate; include changes to paragraph 10, which would now read as follows: "The Parties agree to develop appropriate benchmarks and timeline to evaluate progress in gaining federal and state financial support for the LRT project in the Plan during the four years following execution of the Agreement, to incorporate these benchmarks and timeline into the Plan during the first four year review, and to use these benchmarks and timeline in the reviews set out in paragraph 9 above and in paragraph 13 below"; And authorize staff to make non-substantive changes to the agreement. VOTE: Ayes, 5; Nays, 2 (Commissioner McKee and Commissioner Yuhasz) The Implementation Agreement, in the form in which it was approved at the meeting, is as follows: INTERLOCAL IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT FOR ORANGE COUNTY BUS AND RAIL INVESTMENT PLAN This Interlocal Agreement ("Agreement") dated , 2012 is entered into by and among Orange County, a political subdivision of the State or North Carolina ("Orange"), the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization, the regional transportation planning agency for the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro urban area pursuant to US DOT regulation CFR Part 450 and 49 Part 613 ("DCHC"), and the Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority, d/b/a Triangle Transit, a regional public transportation authority under NCGS 160A ("TTA"). Orange, DCHC, and TTA may be referred to individually as