Minutes 06 09 05
ESENT ransit ansit, First Transit City of Wilmington ew Hanover County Wilmington New Hanover County e & Company order at 12:10pm. e May 12, 2005 regular meeting of the Cape Fear by
Ms. Padgett. The motion was seconded by Mr. ad public comment.
recommends eliminating the Personnel Committee personnel manual were complete. committee recommends the development of two e and an ADA Committee. ently if the public asked the Authority
to make fies an area that a route change might make a mmittee to discuss it before it was brought to the d not meet on a regular basis. lity was under construction, there would be more
e route restructuring. als to the Authority on ADA eligibility denials. nce, Budget, and Ad Hoc Funding Committees ority members. ttee was intended only for a short duration. an if she
would be interested in Chairing the Route serve on the Route Committee. ested in a nominating committee for the election of e if she would be willing to continue as Chair. lling to continue.
the following Authority officers: McNamee ne and carried unanimously. and citizen be part of the Route Committee. ttee was interested in a citizen advisory committee o the Authority.
mittees there were committee members that were
Authority aware of any financial concerns. Director would monitor budget to actual expenses to be an issue, staff would bring the Authority reducing expenses or both. ng the cost of
fuel and made changes in the way ngs through decreased bus idling. e last five years the City of Wilmington and New nsit budget. gton had not gone over budget in the last 4 years. where
the county budget was not met was when e in a timely manner. ovided the funds and was reimbursed when the Hanover County funds that needed to be rolled nd staff had spoken with the county
budget office ing taken to make the necessary appropriations. other funds that need to be rolled over. an update to the approved budget for fiscal year et has updated information from
the management revenue. increased by approximately $60,000. would like to have the Wave Transit Staff salaries st Transit salaries and fringe benefits in the budget est was implemented.
ng Term funding committee had developed two cense tag fee. or staff to research applying for an increase in the Authority. l revenues in the $400,000 to $500,000 range.
g g g Wave Transit. Authority received the contributions directly, it could eiving other funding. was not a direct funding source but more of an transportation. nd Mr. Eby agreed to
take a look into the feasibility o the Authority. s. McCarthy to present the report. discussed the new pocket maps that showed the eting on June 08, 2005. e because they displayed the
routes clearly and of the new schedules including the shuttles. the inserts were hard to read. ume had been delivered. e mascot’s shirt. 5 the mascot would be displayed at the Marketing
ping a jingle for radio advertising. ontest to name the mascot. uld be the mascot. were going to be published in the Star News. N RUSH HOUR INTO RELAX HOUR” and “HOW four ads that were
going to be public service RIDE”, “THE BENEFITS of RIDING”, “THE FREE how often would the ads be run. oing to be in the paper and the jingle was going to
g g g y e would be great if used as PSA’s and on public engers if played on the buses. ring the jingle to the Authority before making a maps at all businesses in the area of the Monkey
for the pocket maps was that they were being put yone who picks them up. great source of advertisement. t the pocket maps out in the Mayfaire area. mmunity was excited about having the
opportunity of the pocket maps was going. s six hours per week distributing the pocket maps. for the high volume cost of the stock and printing nting there needed to be a look at the
cost. many route changes planned, obsolete inventory . ering a large quantity of the pocket maps. erns was that the Authority was only marketing to ke sure that the people not currently
riding the bus e with the marketing and advertising was more y dependant on the bus system. could tell from the discussion that everyone was up and going. ower Point Presentation. ed
that everything would be presented by August
r. Bellows to present the report. e the Authority on the land acquisition process for cility. al Estate Consultant with Triece & Company to s with the Target site that had been evaluated.
as to whether they could build a co-located facility entified that met the Authority’s guidelines. discussed the details with the owner. otential based on all of the factors necessary
to ginally studied by the Authority had recently been bout 10 acres of a 30 acre site. to purchase the parcel since the owner was not the Authority finding a partner. sible but difficult
when the asking price is over Kerr Avenue property could put the College Road the College Road site based on the available eing able to acquire the site within the regulations. uthority
could purchase the property would be four the required appraisals would be necessary and e the property would be in the best interest of the ut a significant amount of funds in jeopardy
should tion.
y a member of the Wilmington Children s Museum rolley stop at their new facility. Museum to provide the Authority with a written luded in the agenda packet. met with Ms. Susie Hamilton,
Executive Director of ntown Trolley service. gested forming a committee to look at the service o the downtown community and make some aluate service requests for the trolley. ngton had
encouraged the Children’s Museum to se the Downtown Trolley to get from the parking nted the Downtown Trolley to stop directly in front e modifications would be minor. eum would market
the Downtown Trolley as part of o give the staff report. ff report would be the Authority financial policies. al policies and procedures. ve Transit Finance Director to present the financial
sic accounting policies and procedures in order to d state Accounting rules. ns in reference to the policies. needed to be made on Item 6.3 would be to add ff contract authorization
was high enough. sed the amount specified it would be only for items
ement for an annual single audit. to see the Authority’s financial policies audited ference management contractor instead of First any other discussion. ial policy with the noted changes.
and carried unanimously. quiring the Authority to meet at least quarterly. y were governed by the NCGS 143, Article 33 C. d by Attorney Burpeau. 5-2006 meeting schedule was enclosed.
ty Meetings Policy and FY 2005-2006 schedule. and carried unanimously. ADA Policies and Appeals Procedure which were the procedure. licy and procedures as a result of the discussion
e proposal. sary changes and allowed Ms. Williams and Mr. eau made some changes which were enclosed in s was who would make the initial decisions in the at an applicant had 15 days to
file an appeal from n. had 30 days to hear the appeal. need to select the members of the appeal board. t the policy as soon as possible. were changed to “the appeal board would be a
requirement would be to appoint the committee.
and if approved changes could be made at a later ansit Mission and Goals. and carried unanimously. e Wave Transit Interlocal Finance Agreement with presented by Ms. Williams at the May
12, 2005 been reviewed by the County Attorney’s office as emoved. ilmington would give advance funds for capital ry to advance beyond the budgeted amount. ade to the original draft.
cal Finance Agreement. and carried unanimously. est from Mr. Eby that the contract between the City gned to the Authority and continue with the same e City Attorney as well as the City
Finance Officer contract with Transsystems being assigned to the mmend it to the City Council at the June 21, 2005 from the Authority. of this contract was that the City of Wilmington
be s that were paid to Transsystems less the city’s uld authorize the director to accept the assignment was required.
her assistance in order to resolve the matter as ould impact the Interlocal Agreement. ingent upon funding. f they could prepare a news release about the news release. Railroad Museum
the opportunity as a non-profit did not have any Rules of Procedures as an estigate preparing written rules of procedures for ntly used Parliamentary Procedures, specifically ngs of
the Authority. of Order, voting members of committees could only oped most issues with the committees decisions pe Fear Breeze Outreach Program to encourage viously would allow the Authority
to provide free huttle. ce on 4th of July wasn’t in the best interest of the Wave Transit negatively if the buses could not get wn Wilmington. otion to go into closed session to discuss
the ant to NCGS § 143-318.11(6) was made by Ms.
Respectfully Submitted, Albert Eby Director /rw