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Attachment A REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSIT PERFORMANCE REPORTING The 1990 Florida Legislature amended Section.341.041(3), Florida Statutes (F.S.), which provides for the Department's transit responsibilities with respect to state transit measures, as follows: Develop, publish, and administer state measures concerning system management, performance, productivity, cost distribution and safety of government owned public transit systems and privately owned or operated systems financed wholly or in part by state funding. Such measures shall be developed jointly with representatives of affected publicly owned transit systems and in coordination with affected privately owned systems, with full considerations given to nationwide industry norms Section 341.071, Florida Statutes, was also enacted requiring the following: (2) Each public transit provider shall establish productivity and performance measures, which must be approved by the department and which must be selected from measures developed pursuant to s. 341.041(3). Each provider shall report annually to the department relative to these measures. In approving these measures, the department shall give consideration to the goals and objectives of each system, the needs of the local area, and the role for public transit in the local area. (3) Each public transit provider shall publish in the local newspaper of its area the productivity and performance measures established for the year and a report which provides quantitative data relative to the attainment of established productivity and performance measures. For the purpose of performance measures reporting the public transit provider shall be defined as all Section 5307 transit systems and Section 5311 transit systems that are not designated as Community Transportation Coordinators pursuant to Chapter 427 F.S (The Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged is responsible for the program with respect to Community Transportation Coordinators as per Section 341.052(5), F.S ) Specific Requirements for Transit System Performance Reporting Pursuant to Section 341.071, F.S the following specific requirements for transit system performance reporting shall be part of the Florida Department of Transportation Transit Block Grant Procedure: