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D R A F T 275 Bret Martin: (Continued presentation). 276 277 Alex Castro: The Advisory Board onAging has provided recommendations on bus serviceexpansion routes in a 278 written letter to the BOCC. 279 280 Bret Martin: (Continued presentation).281 282 Abigaile Pittman: I need to know if you support these goals and address the order because the order reflects priority.283 284 Amy Cole: I am in support of all the goals because they have come directly from the evidence ofthe surveys,285 indicatingwhat we are in need of. As far the order of the goals, I would like to know percentage-wise which would 286 serve the most people and then orderthese according to the greatest population being served.287 288 Ted Triebel: I am on the same track as Amy. I would suggest we swap number one and two. The number one 289 priority, when you look at page 17, this is where most of the people are being affected. We didn’t mention 290 environmental concerns. This is the greatest volume of people and that is why I would be in favor of Amy’s objective. 291 292 Motion made by Ted Triebel that the OUTBoard supports the four goals with prioritizationbeing goal #2 and then #1,293 then the remainder in the order theyare presented. Sam Lasris seconded.294 Vote: 9:1 (Gary Saunders) (Gary Saunders did not provide a reason for his votein opposition.)295 296 Amy Cole: I am suggesting that we serve the majority of the population that needs to be served first and working our 297 waydownthe list. 298 299 Abigaile Pittman: That comes in the next vote.300 301 Jeff Charles: Attachments 3, 4 and 5.302 303 Abigaile Pittman: Amy’s concern is that Later Senior Routes are being implemented too late.304 305 Amy Cole:I thought it should be higher on the list.306 307 Alex Castro: That service is not scheduled to come on until July,2016 andthe Department on Aging feels that it 308 should be brought into service much sooner.309 310 Abigaile Pittman: We are entering into the county’s budget discussion for the next fiscal year.There might also be a 311 discussion of additional funds to go toward something else but thatis unknown at this time.312 313 Bret Martin: Going through the budget process, the only thing changing is to get rid of $3 co pay for medical 314 appointments and to stop collectingfares on the 420route. 315 316 Jeff Charles: There is not a clear swap. For the first year, it is basically $56,000 so where will you get the funds to 317 swap it out to have it occur in 2016 instead of 2017?318 319 Bret Martin: What would naturally come out would be northern zone routes that could be implemented later. The US 320 70 route could possibly be pushed back because it will be sensitive to when Triangle Transit begins service.321 322 Alex Castro: The 420 route is a midday substitutionby OPT of what TTA runs rush hour morning and evening. TTA 323 charges for that route and are we saying we want OPT to run the same route but because they are doing it midday 324 we are not going tocharge? I don’t see the trade-off.325 326 Bret Martin: TriangleTransit is trying to focus on employment commuters.OPT service is primarily local.327 328 8 ReturntoAgenda