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Approved 8/21/13 <br />Craig Benedict: From now until the end of this year, they will spend 5.8 million dollars for project development. Next <br />year, it is roughly $13 to $14 million dollars a year for two consecutive years for project development. Map 21 was <br />adopted last year so we are now under those "loose" guidelines. <br />Paul Guthrie: Does two years include the project analysis or does that include design and acquisition of right of way? <br />Darcy Zorio: It doesn't include that. <br />Craig Benedict: Mainly the environmental. <br />Paul Guthrie: You have to spend that money before you will win federal and state funding? <br />Darcy Zorio: That is right. <br />Paul Guthrie: I reviewed your staff comments and you brought the variation to the attention of Triangle Transit and <br />the BOCC with regard to C1 and C2, with C2 the preferred option and questioning the big $3.6 million dollar <br />expenditure with the consultant - how did that get resolved? <br />Darcy Zorio: A lot of these issues have been resolved and we did address them, so if the board would like we could <br />distribute our responses we gave to the BOCC. <br />Craig Benedict: We have the responses. When the MPO passed the resolution, they said move both C1 and C2 <br />forward. There is a preference for C2. The majority of our comments focused a lot on the bus service because that <br />is something we can do in the next year. The LRT will be in planning for eight years. (Resumed presentation.) <br />Paul Guthrie: The Legislature is probably going to increase the base of what is sales taxed. Does the 5% go against <br />the new definition base or against the one currently in place? <br />Craig Benedict: The definition currently in place. <br />Paul Guthrie: Will you be talking about the pending legislation about how they are redistributing the transportation <br />monies within North Carolina? <br />Craig Benedict: We had DOT at last night's meeting, talking about the Strategic Mobility Formula which is a new <br />initiative of the Governor to have different funding formulas. (Resumed presentation.) <br />Jeff Charles: In the area of governance, as I understand it, with the Strategic Mobility Formula, Orange County gets <br />lumped with Greensboro, and Durham gets lumped with Wake. If we are proposing Rail, does that mean it has to be <br />submitted for state funding through both divisions? <br />Craig Benedict: There will two divisions per region and they will get lumped together but it is true, there will there will <br />have to be requests for those two different regions for funding. <br />Paul Guthrie: That would require Wake to vote? <br />Craig Benedict: Not for their Commissioners but for the DOT. <br />Erik Landfried: I am the Transit Service Planning Supervisor for Triangle Transit Service Planning. We are in charge <br />of where the routes go, what the schedule is for the service, and where the stops are along the route. (Reviewed <br />presentation.) <br />Paul Guthrie: How far out are you planning? <br />Erik Landfried: We will be looking at a few more years. I will get to this a little later in my presentation. <br />