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support the travel and registration fees for no more than two drivers for the annual statewide Bus and Van Roadeo. NOTE: Travel expenses for Roadeo volunteers and judges must be paid from another source or the administrative travel line items (object codes 311, 312, and /or 314. Employee Development funds may not be used to defray the cost of salaries for staff attending a training course or conducting a training course for other system employees. IMPORTANT: No costs that are actually or potentially associated with lobbying activities may be paid for using funds approved in the CTP grant in general and in object code 395 in particular. Applicants may not co- mingle approved activities eligible to be funded in this line item with any lobbying activities. The Public Transportation Division will issue minimum training standards for all community transportation systems that receive state financial assistance from the department. Marketing and Promotional Items — Applicants are required to budget Marketing (Object Code 371) and Promotional Items (Object Code 372) at designated levels. According to the 2014 State Management Plan, State Role in Program Administration, "Technical Management Assistance" page 72, "Systems are required to spend 2% of the total of their Section 5311 administrative funding request, minus vehicle insurance, on marketing." Applicants should thoroughly evaluate their marketing needs to determine if more than the 2% minimum should be budgeted. Additionally, funding requests for Object Code 372 cannot exceed 25% of the budgeted amount for Object Code 371. Operating Budgets Applicants must ensure their operating budget requests match the FY18 approved budgets. Section 5311 operating funds can ONLY be used to support rural general public routes (RGP). RGP DEFINITION: Intended to provide transportation services for individuals from the county who do not have a human service agency or organization that will pay for the transportation service. The passenger's origin or destination must be in the rural area. Operating Expenses - Operating expenses are considered those costs directly related to system operations. Eligible items are defined as stated in the UPTAS manual and State Management Plan. Net operating expenses are eligible for assistance. Net operating expenses are those expenses that remain after the provider subtracts operating revenues from eligible operating expenses. Operating revenues must include farebox revenues. Farebox revenues include fares paid by riders who are later reimbursed by a human service agency or other user -side subsidy arrangement. Farebox revenues do not include payments made directly to the transit system by human service agencies to purchase service. However, purchase of transit passes or other fare 39