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The City Manager remarked that the principle new data furnished to Council was the financial information which JAUNT has provided based on their new accounting system for the month of July. Information for subsequent months will be forthcoming in the near future~ He remarked the best approach would be to try to answer some of the questions Council has. He stated one of the questions of Council was where these people are coming from and where they are going. After discussion with JAUNT it was found that there were problems with some of the social service agencies since their information is confidential. These people are going from their homes to certain agencies and there are some going from onehome to another home which is not so easy to identify. He thinks that by and large there is a city bus within four or five blocks of every home in the City, so there is bus service relatively near all of these people in the City and the question is if you didn't have JAUNT would these people ride the city bus and that question is hard to answer, there are some of them who could not since they are handicapped in some way and they would not be able to utilize the public transportation service. Mr. Albro remarked that he would be interested in hearing from Mr. Wilson as to what would happen if the City did not pay its share. Mr. Wilson stated that right now JAUI~T's fare box revenues represent about 48% of the cost of supplying transportation services to its passengers, ~he other 25% has to come from federal, state and local funding sources. In the City of Charlottesville where nearly all of their transportation is social service agency or human service agency related there is not a potential for increasing the fare box revenue to any great extent above its present level. If the City is not clear to support JAUNT directly, JAUNT does not have the means of requiring equal matching funds which are necessary for state and f'ederal funding support. Tnere- fore, they would have to discontinue most if not all of their social service agency transportation in, Charlottesville. The one exception would be those services funded through the Jefferson Area Board for Aging because the federal government has seen fit to make those funds eligible for use as local match no matter how they are received. Mrs. 0'Brien asked Mr. Wilson if he envisioned being able to cut back so that the service rendered meets the money you get from social service agencies. Mr.-~i!~'bn answered that is a very difficult process since their biggest expense is in payroll. If they try to cut back they first release CETA employees and the revenue they receive either actual or in ~kind from the use of CETA employees is a local match so that if they cut back their revenue even more they cut expenses.