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<br /> Chapter 2: Costs and Funding
<br /> Table 2-4:Weekly Allocated Miles, Times and Passengers
<br /> Total Trip Typical
<br /> Contractor Service Service Total Cost Cost per Trip
<br /> Miles Hours Passengers* (With Grants Per Trip
<br /> Discounted)" Payment
<br /> Adult Day 572 394 1,144 $17,691.47 $15.46 $3.00
<br /> Chapel Hill Dialysis 42,328 1,780 5,720 $107,636.14 $18.82 -
<br /> Durham Dialysis 29,484 584 2,392 $45,502.48 $19.02 -
<br /> Hill to Hill Fixed Route 19,916 1,209 3,848 $66,752.16 $17.35 $2.00
<br /> Hillsborough Circulator 46,020 1,968 10,088 $109,470.72 $10.85 -
<br /> Medicals 15,132 374 1,716 $25,966.06 $15.13 $12.75
<br /> Orange Enterprises 63,336 3,317 13,988 $181,276.45 $12.96 $1.00
<br /> Senior Nutrition Cedar 25,012 608 2,704 $42,672.25 $6.80
<br /> Grove $15.78
<br /> Senior Nutrition Chapel Hill 21,684 1,198 3,172 $69,093.78 $21.78 $6.80
<br /> Senior Nutrition Efland 25,792 1,044 2,652 $65,512.51 $24.70 $6.80
<br /> Senior Nutrition 33,748 1,718 2,912 $104,868.28 $6.80
<br /> Hillsborough $36.01
<br /> Senior Shopping 208 78 312 $3,366.66 $10.79 -
<br /> Sportsplex 2,236 429 3,094 $16,038.01 $5.18 -
<br /> Total 325,468 14,701 53,742 $855,846.98 $15.93
<br /> *Estimates from April 2015 VUD Report
<br /> **Grants Discounted-NCDOT CTP Administrative Funding is not allocated among services but is taken as a contribution to
<br /> reduce overall costs.
<br /> Another observation that arises from the cost allocation effort in this memorandum is that
<br /> most (if not all) of the specialized services, even those operated under contract, are subsidized
<br /> by some combination of state and local transit operating funds, and it is likely that a
<br /> substantial part of this subsidy comes from Orange County general revenues. In many cases
<br /> what the agency can pay is fixed and OPT and the county have considered it part of the
<br /> agency's mission to provide the service even if the agency contract rate could not cover the full
<br /> costs. None of this is meant to imply that the price for these trips should be, or can be
<br /> changed-but only that the subsidy and its source need to be made explicit. As OPT expands
<br /> its services, the funding it plans to use is clearly designated as funding for general public transit
<br /> and the agencies providing it will need to be assured that it is used for its intended purposes.
<br /> For example, a subsidy to support the senior nutrition trip, costs that are not covered by the
<br /> HCCBG funding and donations, will need to be identified as coming from county general funds
<br /> not from Section 5307 operating funds or the regional sales tax.
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