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Mr. Hendrix answered that he could only guess that their budgets have remained about the same for transportation. Mr. Buck remarked that if you look hack through the develop- ment of JAUNT it came from a number of different things that don't always fit in with each other. Organizations like CVCDA where it is basically mandated we will end up pi~king up the cost through social service programs. Someother programs we support and subsidize have said we can't operate unless you buy some services and we have other organizations who are doing it directly. What we're saying we're reaching a special group in many instances or that is what JAUNT is reaching in the City to the extent we~.try to design our mass transit system to reach these people. He doesn't think its going to be possible because we are not talking about a large mass, we are talking about special people involved with special programs. You have an operation that is meeting needs, it has certain funding sources and has some that competes with us as well and some that we would not be able to get otherwise. It does not fit with our mass transit system and so long as those needs exist we are going to have to have a functioning system like JAUNT. The City, Manager remarked that at this point in time no- body knows when Section 18 money will be available. JAUNT Was running a deficit in early spring and the figures we now have for July actually pinpoint-what the deficit is and we have applied the first payment against that, The County have given~,em some local match money and they have been using that also to cover part of the deficit. When we receive the figures for August and September we are going to see the same situation and we~in effect have only provided money for three months and that three month,~ period is up except the accounting has not bee done to catch up. Section 18 money is not available and it seems that Section 18 money does not become effective until next year and JAUNT's deficit goes on every money and Section 18 money is not available and it is a moot point whether it has local match to attract that money because that money is not available. Since Mr, Wilson is running a deficit every month he has borrowed Albemarle's money which was to be applied to Section 18 money to apply to his deficit. At some point in time the money will all be gone and if the City doesn't appropriate additional money its going to come to an end except for what money he has from the fare boxes. There is an immediate issue besides the fifteen to Sixteen thousand dollars that has been appropriated whether that is going to continue. Then there is the philosophical issue as to whether you want to support the organization in toto by providing at least $12,000 of local matching money to attract the Section 18 money ~ whenever it is available so that they can continue to operate. At some point in time the decision has to be made one way or the other simply to let folks know where they are and what they can expect.