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11 <br /> Chlinel Hill <br /> rsi <br /> DATE: February 12, 2025 <br /> TO: Orange County Staff Working Group <br /> FROM: Caroline Dwyer, Chapel Hill Transit <br /> RE: Requested Amendments to FY26 Orange County Annual Transit Workplan <br /> REQUEST SUMMARY <br /> Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) is requesting the following amendment to a programmed project in the <br /> FY 2026 Orange County Annual Transit Work Program, as further described in this memo. This <br /> amendment requests reprogramming funding and generates no fiscal impact on the FY26 Work <br /> Program. <br /> CATEGORY DESCRIPTION ID AMOUNT <br /> Operating -TPA 1.0 FTE: QA/QC Technician Staff 26CHTTS16 $90,000.00 <br /> NEED <br /> We are requesting an amendment to reprogram funding allocated in the FY26 Annual Transit <br /> Workplan. Chapel Hill Transit has not successfully recruited a qualified candidate for the QA/QC <br /> Technician FTE funded with transit tax revenues and we do not expect to fill this role before the <br /> end of the current fiscal year. Chapel Hill Transit urgently needs to upgrade our dispatch and <br /> onboard radio system. The radio system was identified for replacement nearly 15 years ago. A <br /> recently completed radio study found that the cost of the new system will be approximately <br /> $1,500,000. Reprogramming the $90,000 allocated in FY26 for hiring a QA/QC Technician will <br /> allow us to begin purchasing new equipment or provide a local match for a federal or state grant. <br /> CATEGORY DESCRIPTION ID AMOUNT <br /> FROM Operating -TPA 1.0 FTE: QA/QC Technician Staff 26CHTTS16 $90,000.00 <br /> TO Capital -Transit Radio System Replacement New $90,000.00 <br /> Infrastructure <br /> Fiscal impact on FY26 and FY27 Orange County Annual Transit Work Plan budgets: $0 <br /> 405 Martin Luther King Junior Blvd. Chapel Hill, NC 27514 1 www.chtransit.org <br />