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39 <br />Subsidy per Trip <br />$8.31 <br />$7.25 <br />$6.63 <br />-20.2% <br />Federal Funding <br />$179,661 <br />$161,383 <br />$175,728 <br />-2.2% <br />State Funding <br />$238,625 <br />$230,627 <br />$208,314 <br />-12.7% <br />Local Contract Funding <br />$693,596 <br />$461,179 <br />$393,298 <br />-43.3% <br />Other Local Funding <br />$103,795 <br />$142,275 <br />$297,481 <br />+186.6% <br />Fares <br />$25,105 <br />$0 <br />$12,666 <br />-49.5% <br />Survey and Workshop Outcomes <br />The stakeholder workshop for Lee and Moore Countieswas held on April 25, 2013 at the Enrichment <br />Center in Sanford. Alist of attendees can be found in Appendix A. In the first exercise of the workshop, <br />the participantswere asked to brainstorm a list of needs within this two-county region. The group <br />identified the following twenty -one needs: <br />• Gross- county line transportation <br />• Increase time span of service <br />• Increase service to meet general needs (e.g. non - medical trips, etc.) <br />• Need user- friendly information <br />• Ability to update information (internal and external) in atimely manner <br />• Getting information to drivers <br />• Stopswith transit amenities <br />• Increase number of stops <br />• Increase local service— deviated fixed routes <br />• Timeliness of pickup and dropoff <br />• Cooperation with private providers <br />• Ability to accept vouchers <br />• Language barriers/ translation <br />• Oarity about what is covered (Medicaid, etc.) <br />• Need to serve employment centers <br />• Access to community college and job training <br />• Strengthen Transportation Advisory Board <br />• Link transit and land use planning <br />• " Door -to- Door" service <br />• F;bcreation, after - school, and summer trips <br />• Service to elderly and disabled <br />In the second exercise of the workshop, part id pants worked in smaller groups at the individual county <br />level to examine strategies that could potentially be used to address the area's needs. The participants <br />were asked to examine a list of potential strategies, determine whether that was an appropriate type of <br />strategy to use within that county, and consider which needswould be addressed by that strategy. They <br />were also asked to identify any additional strategies that should be considered. There was one small <br />group from Moore County, whose responses are summarized below: <br />Triangle Area WO Locally Coordinated Human Service Transportation Ran 33 <br />