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• • 1 1. The transit agency shall publish in the local newspaper of its area, in the form prescribed by the Department the productivity and performance measures established for the transit providers' most recent completed fiscal year and the prior fiscal year. 2. The performance report shall be approved by the Department prior to its publication. 3. The performance report shall be submitted to the Department no later than September 15 of each year, and published either by November 1, or no later than twenty-eight (28) calendar days after the Department's written approval of the report. 4. The transit agency shall fumish an affidavit of publication and a copy of the newspaper report to the Department within twenty-eight (28) calendar days of publication. 5. Publish performance measures must be consistent with the transit agency's National Transit Database (NTD) report. 6. In computing per capita measures, service area population shall be used as the denominator. Service area population shall be determined according to the Federal Transit Administration's NTD guidelines. 7. For 'agencies operating both fixed -route and demand response systems, performance measures shall be reported separately for fixed -route and demand response services. Published fixed route and demand response data shall include purchased transportation data for each of those modes. If data for purchased transportation are not available to compute any of the required measures, agencies can report that measure for directly -operated service only, but make a notation (footnote) that the reported value for that measure does not include purchased transportation 8. When a new system begins to report, the first year becomes the baseline and that system would only report their first year data. In the second year of reporting, a new system shall report two years of performance data. To allow for meaningful comparison, computation of all prior year data must be consistent with methodology used to compute current year measures. 9. Performance reports shall be given as much prominence as possible in newspaper publications and must include an introductory paragraph as to why these measures are being published. 10. The newspaper publication shall at the minimum report the values of the following nine (9) performance measures (1 — 9, shown in Table A-1):