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comprehensive plans. For support of transit operations, state participation may not exceed 50% of the total eligible operating costs of transit service provision. Local tax revenues made available for operating costs shall not be supplanted by block grant fimds. Because the local match requirement for the capital portion of the County's FY 1998/99 Section 5307 grant may be met by soft -match rather than cash -match funds, the entire $203,868 state PTBG is proposed as a match for operations funding. As with the FTA Section 5307 grant program, only public agencies may be designated recipients of PTBG fimds, although a nonprofit provider may receive such fimds through a designated recipient. Under these restrictions, the Indian River County Council on Aging has requested that the Board of County Commissioners apply for state PTBG fiords on its behalf The Joint Participation Agreement (JPA) is an agreement between FDOT and Indian River County, and specifies the requirements which the County must meet in order to receive PTBG finding. One of the most important of these requirements is that the County submit a Transit Development Plan to FDOT. Recently, the Indian River County MPO developed an updated Transit Development Plan for the entire MPO area, and submitted the plan to FDOT in September 1998 in order for the County to be eligible to apply for and receive PTBG fimds. As indicted in the attached JPA, by May 1999, the County must publish in the newspaper the productivity and performance measures established for the transit system. The Council on Aging will provide these data along with other required reports of local transit service. There are also equal employment and disadvantaged business requirements in the JPA. While no formal plan is required of the County, the County is to ensure that disadvantaged persons and businesses are afforded the maximum opportunity to participate in employment or contracting. As the transit service provider, the Council on Aging prepared plans to meet the equal employment and disadvantaged business requirements, and these plans were approved by the Federal Transit Administration. The attached resolution (Attachment 2) authorizes the Chairman to sign the JPA with FDOT. Upon the Board's adoption of the resolution and the Chairman's execution of the JPA, County staff will transmit the JPA to FDOT. Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners approve the attached Public Transportation Joint Participation Agreement and adopt the attached resolution authorizing the Chairman to sign the agreement Staff further recommends that the Board of County Commissioners authorize staff to proceed with the application process for federal and other state finds comprising the Section 5307 program. 1. FDOT Public Transportation Joint Participation Agreement 2. Resolution Authorizing the Signing of a Public Transportation Joint Participation Agreement December 8, 1998 7 r BOOK 7 �nE u