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the model, each future year grows 3.1 percent. He said these values are used to generate how much service will cost, and then this backfills once a determination is made of how much local money is needed to provide service. He said the set split agreement between Chapel Hill, TT, OPT and Orange County means there is no advantage to an agency inflating its cost per hour. Commissioner McKee said his concern centers on whether the available pot of money remains steady. He said if it does an increase in the per-hour cost will reduce the number of hours available. He is concerned that this will require an ever increasing amount of money to fund that continuous level of bus hours at an increasing rate per hour. He wonders if the available pot of money for buses will remain the same or increase at the same level of cost. He is concerned with maintaining the original number of bus hours proposed in the plan. John Tallmadge said that is what is still affordable in the model. He said the growth in revenues is shown to keep up with the growth in cost. Commissioner Pelissier said, as she understands it, there is also money in reserve that can be used in the event of a dip in revenues in one year. She said this prevents services from being cut. John Tallmadge said that is one of the purposes of the reserve. He said the other reality is that if there is an abnormal situation all parties will get together to decide how to handle the situation. John Tallmadge reviewed the following PowerPoint slides: What is the Central and Rural Orange County Bus Service Expansion Program? ❑ Joint five-year program between Orange County and Triangle Transit ❑ Year-by-year list of bus operating and capital projects for services provided by Orange County (OPT) and Triangle Transit to areas outside of Chapel Hill/Carrboro ❑ Bus program will be referenced in updated Orange County Transit Plan (Spring 2014) Public Involvement ❑ Held four joint County/TTA public outreach meetings in Hillsborough, Cedar Grove, Efland, and Mebane ❑ 83 attendees total ❑ Received 230 surveys at public meetings, on-board buses, and online ❑ Conducted survey of Duke employees who live in Orange/Alamance Counties ❑ Met with various stakeholders: ❑ OUTBoard ❑ Department on Aging ❑ Department of Social Services Bus Services and Projects ❑ Continued funding of Hillsborough Circulator ❑ New OPT services and bus stop improvements ❑ New Triangle Transit service connecting western Orange County, Hillsborough and Durham ❑ Narrowing short and long term options for a Park-and-Ride facility along US-70 in Hillsborough ❑ Still determining potential stop location(s) in western Orange County/eastern Alamance County 11 Potential funding/service coordination opportunities with PART and Burlington-Graham MPO