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14 1 Commissioner McKee said he would like to see this included in option 2. 2 Craig Benedict said the Efland commuter loop would be part of the option 2. 3 Commissioner Pelissier noted thatattachment 1 lists all of the recommended routes. 4 Commissioner Pelissier asked when the fare box recovery will actually be approved. 5 Craig Benedict said in the coming months staffwill be analyzing how to charge for these 6 routes. He said work will be done to make sure there are similarities withTriangle Transitand 7 to come up with a fee schedule to accommodate the fare box revenue estimates. 8 Commissioner Pelissier referred toattachment 1onpage 4. She said the program 9 budget summaryshows, in fiscal year 2015, that$211,000 will be generated from half cent 10 sales tax, but the County will only be spending $156,000. She asked if this is correct. 11 Craig Benedict said any money not spent will be banked. 12 Commissioner Pelissiersaid this explains the one year of gap where the revenue does 13 not cover the service, and this is because the excess from the previous year can be used. 14 Craig Benedict said that is correct. 15 Commissioner Price asked if the 420 route is ever full. She wonders if it makes sense 16 to have a smaller bus. 17 Craig Benedict said staff doesnotknow the ridership now, but they will start with small 18 buses. 19 Commissioner Price referred to the map on attachment 3and asked if these zonesare 20 hard and fast.She questioned whether route 1A could go a little further south. 21 Craig Benedict saidthese routes are approximations, and work is still being done on 22 them. 23 Commissioner Rich asked what theupdateswill look like,what standards will be used, 24 andhow frequent the updates will be. 25 Craig Benedict said there are different standards for rural and urban services. He said 26 there have been discussions about this with Triangle Transit. 27 Craig Benedict said a metric has been developed to bring back to the Board of County 28 Commissioners,andthis will likely be presented to the Board once a year, prior to budget 29 discussions. 30 Bret Martin said the service standard would make use of the passengers per service 31 hour metric. He said the standard would state that services and routes should be no less than 32 one half below the system’s average for each type of service. He said TTA uses 25 percent 33 below, but OPT does not have as much benchmark data. 34 Bret Martin said it takes time for the publicto acknowledge a service route. He said the 35 plan is to have a one year introduction period, followed by a 6 month data evaluation. He said 36 the report would come back to the Board after this 6 month period. Bret Martin said this means 37 the Board would receive a report after 18 months. He said this is just staff’s recommendation. 38 Commissioner Rich said she would like a periodic update to keep theBoardin the loop. 39 Commissioner Gordon referred to the green route listed on thelast page. She said 40 these are mid-day routes, and she asked how many passengers the buses hold. 41 Craig Benedict said these hold 20 passengers. 42 Commissioner Gordon said these 20 passenger buses are the kind of buses used for 43 the rural program. 44 Craig Benedict said yes. He said these buses are only about $75,000 each, as opposed 45 to larger buses at $450,000. 46 Commissioner Gordon said she is happy to see the expansion of the route up into 47 Cedar Grove eventually. She thanked staff for their work on this program. 48 Chair Jacobs requestedthat staff provide the boarda visual representation of the public 49 routes added to Orange County after the 420 route started.He said a map would provide a 50 better picture of the system as it is growing.