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7 <br /> Triangle <br /> MEMO <br /> Date: August 29, 2025 <br /> From: Meg Scully, Jay Heikes, GoTriangle <br /> Re: Q2 Amendment Request for FY26 Orange Transit Workprogram —GoTriangle Service Planning Staff <br /> The Orange Transit Plan funds expansion services in Orange County. For example, GoTriangle receives funding <br /> for bus service provided to Orange County residents and visitors on the 400, 800, CRX, and ODX. A service <br /> planning team member must develop and plan these services through external coordination with transit plan <br /> partners, stakeholders, riders, and the public through transit plan updates, short range service plans, annual <br /> work programs. A service planning team member must prepare and implement new expansion services <br /> including realignments, stop changes, span and frequency changes, and timing changes by following <br /> established coordination and engagement practices among transit plan partners, stakeholders, riders, and the <br /> public; preparing required service analysis, prepare materials for review by governing bodies, and final <br /> alignments, route schedules, vehicle schedules, and operator schedules. A service planning team member <br /> must monitor the performance of the service to make adjustments to schedules and patterns to optimize the <br /> efficiency and effectiveness of the service to ensure that the service is delivered in a satisfactory manner. The <br /> Service Planning Team also conducts data analysis and prepares budgets and reports for these services. <br /> This request is for a new project to fund a portion of an FTE (0.34 FTE) to support that work. Wake County <br /> Transit Plan already funds 1 FTE and GoTriangle will request funding from the Durham County Transit Plan for <br /> 0.66 FTE as well. The average budget for salary and benefits of the four-member service planning team at <br /> GoTriangle is $111,494. 34% of this amount is $37,908 and will be requested in FY26 as the fourth staff person <br /> on this team started in July 2025. This FTE allocation of 0.34 will be split among the four employees equally to <br /> reflect the balance of work undertaken by members of the team. In FY27 the service planning team will <br /> oversee the delivery of 200,000 revenue hours of service affected by transit plan funded expansion. Using the <br /> estimate of revenue hours per service planner, included in the 2018 Wake Transit Staffing Study, transit plan <br /> funding is warranted for two positions. Based among the split of revenue hours among the counties <br /> GoTriangle proposes to fund the 2 positions as follows: Wake 1, Durham 0.66, Orange 0.34 <br /> 4600 Emperor Blvd., Suite 100, Durham, NC 27703 1 gotriangle.org <br />