NSN Aging/OPT - Transportation Development Plan Update for Orange County, NC for 1995-1999

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• Vehicles can only be leased to provide short term human services, education, and leisure transportation. • Vehicles cannot be leased to provide -- political, religious, private, or profit-making endeavors, -- scheduled weekly trips over an extended period, -- overnight excursion trips, -- trips with more than a 50-mile radius of Orange County unless approved by the Department on Aging director. Short term leasing community organizations who have been served over the past two years (1993-1995) are as follows: • American Association for Retired Persons • Town of Chapel Hill - Recreation and Parks • Orange Water and Sewer Authorities • Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce • Hillsborough Historical Society • Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce • U.S. Postal Service - Hillsborough • Friends of the Chapel Hill Senior Center • Brooks Day CAre Center - Hillsborough • Meadowbrook Rest Home • Community School for People under six- Chapel Hill • Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Center • UNC Association of Hospital Volunteers • Orange County Economic Development Commission • Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) • Frank Porter Graham Day Care Center • Orange County Visitors Bureau • Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools • Victory Village Day Care • Chapel Hill Cooperative Pre-School • Holy Family Day Care • O.W.A.S.A. • N.C. Division for the Blind • Charles House Adult Day Care Additional transportation service is purchased from Chapel Hill Transit, taxi services (Walton's, Airport Intown, Tarheel, Canaday's, and Orange Cab), and McBroom Coach. Total cost for services purchased during the past fiscal year was $46,029. Table 2-1 lists the taxi companies and presents information about the amount and type of service purchased by DOA-OPT. -12-