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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. VJZ-p <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 1, 1994 <br /> SUBJECT: Proposed Name Change for the Coordinated Transportation Program <br /> ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- <br /> DEPARTMENT: Aging/C.A.T. PUBLIC HEARING YES: NO: X <br /> ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Jerry M. Passmore, ext.2009 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER- <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> To change the name of the Coordinated Agency Transportation program to <br /> Coordinated Area Transportation. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Orange County Human Services .Transportation Advisory Board, at its <br /> October 26 meeting, voted to recommend that the County Commissioners <br /> approve a name change for the coordinated transportation program. The <br /> proposed new name would be Coordinated Area Transportation. This change <br /> is recommended in order to reflect the system's provision of general <br /> public transportation as well as service to the County's human service <br /> agencies. <br /> Orange County initiated a coordinated transportation system in 1982. At <br /> that time the system was composed of 7 human service agencies who needed <br /> to provide transportation for their clients. Over time the system has <br /> grown to include 12 different participating agencies. In 1993 the Federal <br /> Transit Administration (formerly the Urban Mass Transit Administration) <br /> widened its focus from provision of service strictly to agency clients to <br /> providing service to the general public. In addition to offering <br /> available seats on existing routes to the public, coordinated systems are <br /> being asked to establish routes that would provide service to the rural <br /> general public. Future funding will be influenced by a system's success <br /> in meeting the rural public transportation need. In October, 1993 Orange <br /> County established the GAT Express Shuttle to serve the general public <br /> needing transportation between northern Orange County and the Chapel Hill- <br /> Carrboro area. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> Manager recommends approval of the name change from Coordinated Agency <br /> Transportation to Coordinated Area Transportation. <br /> FN:ABS94#7.DOC <br />