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54 <br />55 Paul Guthrie: What do you anticipate as an additional cost to collect this fare? <br />56 <br />57 Bret Martin: It depends on your collection system. If we use credit cards it's going to eat into to it quite a bit. <br />58 Right now all we are doing is collecting cash fares. The fare structure does have a proposal in it to pursue the <br />59 issuance of bus passes for distribution. <br />60 <br />61 Peter Murphy: To answer the question, we really haven't put a dollar value on it but certainly there is a cost with <br />62 counting the money and the time with that, and even printing bus passes to sell. <br />63 <br />64 Paul Guthrie: I remember many years ago a public transit study out of the Washington do metro area showed <br />65 that the fares charged by the DC transit were costing more to collect than the fares that were being collected. In <br />66 fact the collection of fares cost more than if they had no fares. If you have a small fare that doesn't change the <br />67 percentage of cost very much, I was wondering what the benefit was of the fare system. <br />68 <br />69 Bret Martin: Well to add to that, part of the reason to collect fares is not just to collect fares; it's also to keep too <br />70 many people from getting on the bus. For our system that's not going to be an issue. <br />71 <br />72 Art Menius: Have you analyzed the net gain or loss on the current $2 and $1 fares on the hill to hill route? <br />73 <br />74 Bret Martin: Not on that one. <br />75 <br />76 David Laudicina: It says Medicare or Medicaid card; you might want to put in there Medicare advantage card. <br />77 <br />78 Bret Martin: I'll make a note of that. <br />79 <br />80 Heidi Perry: Do you also offer an annual pass? <br />81 <br />82 Bret Martin: It's a consideration. It's not something transit typically provides. <br />83 <br />84 Paul Guthrie: The more process you have of issuing and reissuing cards, your management cost goes up. <br />85 <br />86 Art Menius: What is the status of the daily, weekly, and monthly passes? Are you implementing them or not? <br />87 <br />88 Bret Martin: It's not something that we're doing, it's something we asking approval for. <br />89 <br />g0 Amy Cole: Have you done any surveys with the seniors to see what they think of the rate increase? <br />91 <br />92 Bret Martin: We have not, but we have a public hearing tonight. <br />93 <br />94 Heidi Perry: The notices probably didn't say anything about rate increase. They probably just said new fare <br />95 structure. <br />96 <br />97 Bret Martin: The notice has to be specific that it's a rate increase because that's the only thing that requires a <br />98 public hearing. <br />99 <br />100 Amy Cole: Were the notices actually on the buses? <br />101 <br />102 Peter Murphy: I can't say I know that they got them up. <br />103 <br />104 Janice Tyler: They should be posted where the people who are being served can see. <br />105 <br />106 Peter Murphy: Does anyone have any questions? <br />