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 <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 /> <br />Paul Guthrie: Does two years include the projectanalysis or does that include designandacquisition of right of way? <br /> <br />Darcy Zorio: It doesn’t include that. <br /> <br />Craig Benedict: Mainly the environmental. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: You have to spend that money before you will win federal and state funding? <br /> <br />Darcy Zorio: That is right. <br /> <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 thepreferred option and questioningthe big $3.6 million dollar  <br />expenditure with theconsultant - how did that get resolved? <br /> <br />Darcy Zorio: A lot of these issues have been resolved and we did addressthem,so if the board would like we could  <br />distribute our responses we gave to the BOCC. <br /> <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 /> <br />Paul Guthrie: The Legislature isprobably 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 /> <br />Craig Benedict: The definitioncurrently in place. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: Will you be talking about the pending legislationabout how they are redistributing the transportation  <br />monies within North Carolina?  <br /> <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 /> <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 proposingRail, does that mean it has to be  <br />submitted for state funding through both divisions? <br /> <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 /> <br />Paul Guthrie: That would requireWake to vote? <br /> <br />Craig Benedict: Not for their Commissioners but for the DOT. <br /> <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 /> <br />Paul Guthrie: How far out are you planning? <br /> <br />Erik Landfried: We will be looking at a few more years. I will get to this a little laterin my presentation.  <br />3 <br />ReturntoAgenda