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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 5, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~_ <br />SUBJECT: Public Hearing on the North Cazolina Department of Transportation's Rural Operating <br />Assistance Pro am Grant <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging/Orange Public <br />Transportation <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1~ Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Application <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jerry M. Passmore, Ext. 2009 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS <br />Hillsborough 732-$181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 330227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive citizen comments regazding the proposed FY 2000-01 application package <br />referred to as ROAP (Rural Operating Assistance Program) which includes the Elderly and Disabled <br />Transportation Assistance Program, Work First Transitional/Employment Transportation Assistance <br />Program and the Rural General Public Program and to approve submission of the combined ROAP <br />application. <br />BACKGROUND: In an effort to streamline its funding procedure the NC Department of <br />Transportation's Public Transportation Division combined the application process for the three above- <br />mentioned grant programs into one package. However, there can be no transfer of funds among the <br />programs for the FY2000-2001. As part of the application package the Boazd of County Commissioners <br />must hold a public hearixg. County governments aze the only eligible applicants for these funds. <br />The Elderly and Disabled Transportation Assistance Program, first made available by the General <br />Assembly in 1989, is used in Orange County to pay far medical and personal business trips for residents <br />who are 60 years and older- or disabled. The Work First/Employmentprngram assists former Work First <br />clients and other low- income persons certified far Medicaid and Food Stamps with employment-related <br />transportation. Rural General Public funds aze used to subsidize the Orange Express public route which <br />makes three round trips daily from Hillsborough/North Orange to the Chapel Hi1UCarrboro area. <br />The Rural Operating Assistance Program (ROAD) funds will provide the following service: <br />(1) Elderly and Disabled Transportation Assistance Frogram - 4,167 additional medical trips <br />(2) Rural General Public -Orange Express Public Route -- 5,440 additional general public trips <br />(3) Work First/Employment Transportation Program - 32 different Work First Clients (' . 30o each) <br />