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Plan Implementation and Finance <br />Planned Expenditures <br />Plaivned Expeeisibures and <br />To .re fiscal constrains, the Recommended WAN COARY Trarm <br />Plan include; inflaw estimates for project estimates and operating <br />costs Project estimates for WT. commuter rail. bus and <br />buses "Oors offtim stedin MS dollars. Then, projects were programmed <br />aocsordIng to plooned project schodulam and then escalated to year of <br />expenditure using an inflation factor af4%. Local bin cpom*V hours <br />were calculated in 2015 do&m and then escalated at ZM Operating <br />coats for cornmuter red and WT Were estimated on 2015 dollars, and <br />than inflated so the yew the projects would begin, again using an <br />inflation factor of 259L. The Remmmendad Wake County Transit <br />Man contemplates a total of SIA b^m of coliita] projects by 2027. A <br />summary of an capita expenditures a shown in Figure 26. <br />COM"Mor RNA capital EMUMMUMets <br />The Corrm~ Ptsil capital expendsures include the vv," Courny Owe <br />of correnuter rail. The Trarmit Plan proposes up to eight vains in each <br />park with two mid -day and two :n tie Min each direction (-248- <br />2) . The final service hours and frequencies win be determined during the <br />future alternatives analysis. To be ooneervative. Included in the %;W plan <br />a; an estimated 8-2&2 comnvw rail service %4 f would operatefrom <br />VV*g Durham to Games within the ausft Norlolt Southern Railroad <br />owdor fawned by NCM Cornpanyl by adding additional trans and <br />focities. This would cornsnue to be studied and refined during the first <br />years of the Transit Plan, to corm 9 thk Is the most viable approach <br />and it subject to funds from our partners and suocessM fed" fund". <br />OU capkal elloolack- <br />The ORT Capitol Exparbckores w4ude four BlTr corridors totaling SW <br />mom between 20I8 and 2023 as Ova" below. Donors programmed <br />inducing planning and design, construction, and acquisition of vehicles, <br />for *on comidom <br />Other Capital E-pe-lift- <br />Significant resources are allocated for capital a ifix-Is ctumtopipporta <br />rajokly increasing local bus network. Bus infrastructure, which includes <br />transfer statiorts, park and ride lots, bus stop impomemerts, bus <br />rwitseexxt facades. sidewalk access and stsestside facilities. and other <br />or,prowwronm is programmed for $208 million between 20I8 and 2024• <br />A sumnbory of these hem is shown bekw <br />Moreover, $114 mesons allocated towards the acquisition and <br />1ARRETT WALKER Kirnley*Horn <br />replacernent of busses for $DCA bus service between 2018 and 2026, <br />which represents 116 buses. <br />Also included n other capital is 52437 m lion of locally funded grade <br />reparation match funds allocated between 209 and 2022. <br />Betwe a v 2= and 2027, $3S million Is available for future pnoiscm <br />Between 2028 and 2037, other cap" includes boo corr"wvm toas <br />replacement totaling s1 8o minion and future projects totaling mcs <br />milicm <br />Debt Service and Debt Service Rosier" Fund <br />As debt is issued for capital projects, primipal and Mutest win be paid <br />on those projects. these dollars represent the corresponding debt <br />service on corernuser •A BRT. and various bus infrastructure projects <br />that are required during the fist ZD years of the llecorronended Wake <br />County Traesk Plan. <br />Operating Fund Balance Allocation <br />To oroune adequate operating liquidity, the Recommended Wake <br />Carty Transit Plan was developed with a two of that the operating <br />fund balance would ham a -miry mn fund balance equal to 25% of <br />annual sales tax rvvenxres. The donors shown are the minimum allocation <br />lbo reed this requirornent <br />Capital Fund Balmmoo, Allecatim <br />To dements credit strength tso manage &k the R&convnerKled Wales <br />County Tinarmt Flon also was developed with a target of having a capital <br />fund balance of St of capital projects cost This capital fund balance <br />K over and above individual capital budgets which may have their own <br />project -Mrqw— Maintaining suff— 4UkJky during co-- <br />activity is an important ovdit: wrorigth for rating agwhcias. The capital <br />fund balance allocation is timed to vAen significant debt issuances <br />would be" for capital projects funded *n the Mice Cow" Transh, Plan_ <br />Operating Expertses <br />There am ire categories of operating expenses cornbred. The first is <br />local bus service. which rx"gssg;front SM nOm in FY 2018 to US <br />-lion in FY 2027. Added to dot is 8RT service, beginning in the ffxxiel <br />in 2=4. Other operating funds rotate mairmenance, and operations <br />for bus faclion and other OdOted bus operations such as ortal town <br />local vory" notching funds, panvanut sorwce, and other professional <br />services. Rnely, commuter rail is shown no" in =29� and adds an <br />1 -1-1' onal S20 million of open" expenses, Al operating e4senses are <br />grown at 2-S% to aomum for inflation, The mod.l —.ws that by 2027, <br />$1293 million of operm&V win be in piece and a UCW of S166 million of <br />operating expenses oil be incuned trKlucling allocamns to fund bslanca <br />and debt service expenses. A arnmary of 2027 6cal operating costs is LL <br />shown in Figure 27. <br />z <br />z <br />0 <br />z <br />ILI <br />dc <br />to <br />-J <br />(IQ <br />S O►oussnids) <br />CormuterRail <br />8— Rapid Transit <br />S$66,SW <br />Sw"O <br />BusAcquisiticon <br />S114.700 <br />Bus Infrastructure <br />I208.400 <br />Other Capital Pm <br />524.500 <br />Future projects <br />535A00 <br />Tow <br />SIA16.100 <br />z <br />0 <br />z <br />ILI <br />dc <br />to <br />-J <br />(IQ <br />Local Bus Network <br />99T <br />514-500 <br />Carmuzaar RON.— <br />Other Bus OP&MOW4 <br />SM100 <br />$7,100 <br />Mainconar,co and Operations <br />52,300 <br />Tool <br />z <br />0 <br />z <br />ILI <br />dc <br />to <br />-J <br />(IQ <br />