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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION J01W PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION The Board reviewed a Memorandum of December 4, 1995: TO: James Chandler County Administrator FROM: Robert M. Keating, AICPA Community Development Director DATE: December 4, 1995 SUBJECT: REQUEST TO INITIATE A PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION JOINT PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of December 12, 1995. 1 DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS At the September 19, 1995 Board of County Commissioners meeting, the Board approved the submittal of an applicatioD for Federal Transit Administration Section 9 Grant funds. The County will pass through the grant funds to the Indian River County Council on Aging, Inc. for continuation and expansion of public transportation services. As approved by the Board of County Commissioners, the grant application proposes matching funds for the Section 9 grant from Indian River County, the City of Vero Beach, and a State Public Transit Block Grant. Enacted by the Florida Legislature to provide a state -based source of funding for public transit, state Public Transit Block Grant funds are awarded to those public transit providers eligible to receive funding from the Federal Transit Administration's Section 9 and 18 programs and to Community Transportation Coordinators. The Indian River County MPO has included the proposed Public Transit Block Grant funding in its Fiscal Year 1995/96 - 1999/00 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) under its Public Transportation Development projects. The total amount of Indian River County's Public Transit Block Grant is approximately $111,000. The entire grant amount will be used to provide a portion of the required match for FTA Section 9 operating and capital expenditures. According to state regulations, the block grant funds may be used for eligible capital and operating costs of public transit providers. Projects are to be consistent with applicable approved local government comprehensive plans. For capital projects, State participation is limited to 50% of the nonfederal share. For support of transit operations, state participation may not exceed the lesser of 50% of the total eligible operating costs of the public transit services, or the total revenue (excluding federal funds and farebox and advertising revenues) received by the transit provider for operating expenses. Local tax revenues made available for operating costs shall not be supplanted by block grant funds. DECEMBER 12, 1995 15 Bm 96 PAu 756