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Exhibit A <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Jason Brown; County Administrator <br />DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br />Stan Boling, AI 4mmunity Development Director <br />THROUGH: Phil Matson, AICP; MPO Staff DirectorPV <br />`% <br />FROM: .Brian Freeman, AICP; Senior Transportation Planner <br />DATE: September 23, 2016 <br />SUBJECT: Request for Approval to Enter into a Public Transportation Joint Participation <br />Agreement (JPA) with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for a <br />Service Development Grant <br />It is requested that the information herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of <br />County Commissioners at its regular meeting of October 4, 2016. <br />DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS <br />For the past several years, Indian River County has applied for and received mass transit operating <br />assistance from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). Those FDOT funds, combined <br />with local fiends, serve as the required match towards federal transit operating assistance received <br />under 49 USC Ch. 53, Section 5307 (also known as the Urbanized Area Formula Grant program). <br />Those local, state and federal funds are then passed through to the Senior Resource Association <br />(SRA), Indian River County's. designated transit service provider. SRA operates the GoLine (fixed <br />route) and the Community Coach (dcmand response) transit services. <br />Recently, a Service Development grant to the county expired. That grant was used to expand service <br />on Saturdays and during evening hours on weekdays. In place of the recently expired grant, FDOT <br />has awarded a new Service Development grant in the amount of $500,000 over a three-year period, <br />beginning in FY 2016/17. <br />While the new FDOT funding can be applied towards existing service, a portion of it must be used to <br />fund a service improvement. In this case, service hours will be expanded on Saturdays, which is a <br />recommendation of the Transit Development Plan (TDP). Currently, Saturday service is limited to a <br />FACommunity Development\Ustm\N4Pol7iansitlGrantg Service Development116171bce staff repon.doex <br />Page 9 P7 4 <br />