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30 <br /> Chapter 1: Current Conditions <br /> Orange Enterprises/Residential Services Inc. <br /> This private non-profit organization provides services for persons with intellectual or <br /> developmental disabilities to create opportunities for personal and professional growth, <br /> focusing on helping clients develop and maintain independent life to their full potential. <br /> Programs include day support, vocational evaluation, work adjustment (including training), <br /> adult developmental vocation programs, long term vocational support and internships with <br /> community employers. Orange Enterprises (OE) offers several business lines that provide <br /> employment. This organization purchases tickets for its clients at $i.00 per trip (the fare for <br /> persons with disabilities), and the clients ride subscription routes that meet their needs. <br /> These routes are also open to the general public or other agency trips if the schedules and <br /> routes fit their needs. <br /> Sportsplex/Parks and Recreation <br /> OPT provides group transportation to the Sportsplex which is a county recreation facility. <br /> This is a long-standing arrangement and OPT is paid for driver time (at $20.00 per hour) and <br /> the vehicle (at si.00 per mile). The combined rate currently works out to $52.20 per day. No <br /> additional user fare is collected. The revenue is shown in the MUNIS system as driver lease <br /> revenue. The service was formerly dedicated to service Sportsplex riders only but last year it <br /> was changed to allow for trips by other riders to be on the vehicles as well. The Sportsplex <br /> added adult bus monitors to two routes, and tools over operation of a third, which will <br /> reduce the ridership to approximately 4,000 trips this fiscal year. <br /> Fare Structure-OPT <br /> Fares for OPT's transportation vary by type of service and program. <br /> Fixed route <br /> On September 1, 2015, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners adopted a new <br /> fare schedule covering the fixed route and route deviation services. <br /> • Hillsborough Circulator: Free <br /> • Other Non-Peals Fixed Routes (Orange-Chapel Hill Mid-day Connector, Orange- <br /> Alamance Connector): <br /> o $2 one-way, general public cash fare <br /> o s1 one-way, fare for children age 6-17 <br /> o Free, passengers 6o and above, children age 0-5, persons with disabilities and <br /> passengers with a Medicaid or Medicare card <br /> FH <br /> NCDOT Orange County 14 <br /> Transit Assessment Study <br />