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54 <br />Paul Guthrie: What do you anticipate as an additional cost to collect this fare? 55 <br />56 <br />Bret Martin: It depends on your collection system. If we use credit cards it’s going to eat into to it quite a bit. 57 <br />Right now all we are doing is collecting cash fares. The fare structure does have a proposal in it to pursue the 58 <br />issuance of bus passes for distribution. 59 <br />60 <br />Peter Murphy: To answer the question, we really haven’t put a dollar value on it but certainly there is a cost with 61 <br />counting the money and the time with that, and even printing bus passes to sell. 62 <br />63 <br />Paul Guthrie: I remember many years ago a public transit study out of the Washington dc metro area showed 64 <br />that the fares charged by the DC transit were costing more to collect than the fares that were being collected. In 65 <br />fact the collection of fares cost more than if they had no fares. If you have a small fare that doesn’t change the 66 <br />percentage of cost very much, I was wondering what the benefit was of the fare system. 67 <br />68 <br />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 69 <br />many people from getting on the bus. For our system that’s not going to be an issue. 70 <br />71 <br />Art Menius: Have you analyzed the net gain or loss on the current $2 and $1 fares on the hill to hill route? 72 <br />73 <br />Bret Martin: Not on that one. 74 <br />75 <br />David Laudicina: It says Medicare or Medicaid card; you might want to put in there Medicare advantage card. 76 <br />77 <br />Bret Martin: I’ll make a note of that. 78 <br />79 <br />Heidi Perry: Do you also offer an annual pass? 80 <br />81 <br />Bret Martin: It’s a consideration. It’s not something transit typically provides. 82 <br />83 <br />Paul Guthrie: The more process you have of issuing and reissuing cards, your management cost goes up. 84 <br />85 <br />Art Menius: What is the status of the daily, weekly, and monthly passes? Are you implementing them or not? 86 <br />87 <br />Bret Martin: It’s not something that we’re doing, it’s something we asking approval for. 88 <br />89 <br />Amy Cole: Have you done any surveys with the seniors to see what they think of the rate increase? 90 <br />91 <br />Bret Martin: We have not, but we have a public hearing tonight. 92 <br />93 <br />Heidi Perry: The notices probably didn’t say anything about rate increase. They probably just said new fare 94 <br />structure. 95 <br />96 <br />Bret Martin: The notice has to be specific that it’s a rate increase because that’s the only thing that requires a 97 <br />public hearing. 98 <br />99 <br />Amy Cole: Were the notices actually on the buses? 100 <br />101 <br />Peter Murphy: I can’t say I know that they got them up. 102 <br />103 <br />Janice Tyler: They should be posted where the people who are being served can see. 104 <br />105 <br />Peter Murphy: Does anyone have any questions? 106 <br />4