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STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Forth 725-000-02 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT VELOPMENT GRANT AGREEMENT EXHIBITS Occ02n0 EXHIBIT E PROGRAM SPECIFIC TERMS AND CONDITIONS — TRANSIT (For State Block Grant Only) This exhibit forms an integral part of the Agreement between the Department and the Agency. 1. Statutory Reference. Section 341.052, F.S. 2. Eligibility. The Department shall provide block grant funds for eligible capital and operating costs of public bus transit and local public fixed guideway projects. Eligibility of this Agency to receive grant funding is provided in Section 341.052(1), F.S., and Sections 5307 and 5311 of the Federal Transit Act, 49 U.S.C. 5307, and 49 U.S.C. 5311 respectively. a) Eligible transit capital costs means any costs that would be defined as capital costs by the Federal Transit Administration. b) Eligible transit operating costs are the total administrative, management, and operation costs directly incident to the provision of public bus transit services, excludinq any depreciation or amortization of capital assets. 3. Local Revenue Limits. Block grant funds shall not exceed local revenue during the term of this Agreement. Local revenue is defined as the sum of money received from local government entities to assist in paying transit operation costs, including tax funds, and revenue earned from fare box receipts, charter service, contract service, express service and non - transportation activities. 4. Supplanting Local Tax Revenue. Block grant funds shall not supplant local tax revenues made available for operations in the year immediately preceding this Agreement. 5. State Participation. State participation in eligible public transit operating costs may not exceed fifty (50) percent of such costs or an amount equal to the total revenue, excluding farebox, charter, and advertising revenue and federal funds, received by the provider for operating costs, whichever amount is less. 6. Required Audit. The Agency shall require the independent auditor, retained to perform the audit as required by the Single Audit Act of 1984, to specifically test and certify that these limitations (...funds shall not exceed local revenue... funds shall not be expended for depreciation or amortization of capital assets... funds shall not supplant local tax revenues made available for operations in the previous year) of the block grant program as delineated in Section 341.052, F.S., have been adhered to. 7. Required Budget. The Agency shall provide the Department with two (2) copies of its most current adopted budget by March 1. Unless the adopted budget uses a format consistent with the National Transit Database (NTD) report, the copy provided to the Department will indicate how the projections for total local revenue, local tax revenue made available for operations, and depreciation and amortization costs, as they will appear in the NTD report, can be identified. 8. Required Publication of Productivity and Performance Measures. The Agency shall publish in the local newspaper of its area, in the format prescribed by the Department, the productivity and performance measures established for the transit providers most recently completed fiscal year and the prior fiscal year. This report shall be approved by the Department prior to its publication. This report shall be submitted to the Department no later than November 15 of each year, and published either by December 31 or no later than twenty-eight (28) calendar days of the Department's written approval of the report. The Agency shall furnish an affidavit of publication to the Department within twenty eight (28) calendar days of publication. Page 22 of 26