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  **Job Access & Reverse Commute Proposal Narrative**   
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| **Document the coordinated human services and transportation planning |
| process (25 points)**                                                 |
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| **A brief description (no more than three pages\--double spaced) of   |
| the collaborative transportation/human services process used in       |
| developing the Area-Wide Job Access and Reverse Commute               |
| Transportation Plan**                                                 |
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| **A list of the organizations and other participants in the Job       |
| Access and Reverse Commute planning process**                         |
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| **A description of the results of the local Job Access and Reverse    |
| Commute Plan consultation process with the community to be served**   |
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| **Letters of endorsement or objections from planning partners (Please |
| submit with written proposal)**                                       |
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| **Applicant responses to any letters of objections**                  |
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| **Area-Wide Job Access and Reverse Commute Transportation Plan (60    |
| points) \[Please submit with written proposal\]. Provide the          |
| following information as requested below from this Plan.**            |
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| **Document the unmet transportation needs on a region-wide basis from |
| the Area-Wide Job Access and Reverse Commute Plan and provide project |
| specific information on how the proposed services meet these needs    |
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| **Describe the unmet need for additional transportation services**    |
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| **A definition of the proposed project service areas, the communities |
| to be served and the geographic area covered by the area-wide job     |
| access and reverse commute plan.**                                    |
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| **The number of welfare recipients and low-income persons within the  |
| proposed project service area**                                       |
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| **The percentage of the population that welfare recipients and        |
| low-income persons represent within the project/s service area.**     |
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| **The percentage of the population that welfare recipients and        |
| low-income persons represent within the geographic area.**            |
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| **A description of major employment opportunities. Please provide     |
| maps depicting the information listed.) \[Please submit maps with     |
| written proposal and, if possible, also electronically\].**           |
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| **A description of the existing transportation network, including     |
| human services, nonprofit, private and public transportation          |
| providers. \[Please submit maps with written proposal and, if         |
| possible, also electronically\].**                                    |
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| **A description of transportation gaps in existing services for       |
| welfare recipients and low-income populations seeking to reach jobs   |
| and employment support services. \[Please submit maps with written    |
| proposal and, if possible, also electronically\].**                   |
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| **For reverse commute projects, information on the need for           |
| additional transportation services. \[Please submit maps with written |
| proposal and, if possible, also electronically\].**                   |
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| **MPOs and states should list projects in priority order for funding  |
| implementation and describe how each proposed project(s) will meet    |
| the unmet needs described above. \[Please submit maps with written    |
| proposal and, if possible, also electronically\] (30 points).**       |
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| **MPO/State Project Prioritization \--List Projects in Priority       |
| Order\--**                                                            |
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| **List Tribal Projects**                                              |
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| **PROJECT INFORMATION - Provide the following information for each    |
| project. If there are multiple projects included, use the additional  |
| Project Information template for each project. Projects include major |
| discrete activities, subrecipient activities, and within Statewide    |
| applications, each jurisdictional project.**                          |
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| **Describe the applicant\'s organizational capacity to implement the  |
| project.**                                                            |
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| **Specify project goals and objectives.**                             |
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| **Provide indicators that will be used to monitor project performance |
| and to make subsequent adjustments in project implementation.**       |
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| **Describe the project.**                                             |
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| **Provide operation-specific data (e.g. miles/hours of service, new   |
| routes, route extensions, reduced travel time for target population   |
| where appropriate, etc.).**                                           |
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| **Estimate capital and operating project costs Estimate annualized    |
| cost per rider of proposed project. For job access projects, estimate |
| low-income and welfare recipient ridership and total annual           |
| ridership.**                                                          |
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| **For reverse commute projects, estimate annual ridership.**          |
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| **Percentage of target population to be served.**                     |
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| **Describe how the project will address the mobility needs of persons |
| with disabilities and provide certification that the ADA requirements |
| will be met.**                                                        |
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| **Identify employment potential in the proposed project\'s service    |
| area, including the new jobs and/or job and employment support sites  |
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| **Specify how existing service providers will be used to provide      |
| proposed services.**                                                  |
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| **Describe mechanisms to coordinate or integrate new transportation   |
| services within existing needs of target populations.**               |
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| **For applicants who already have received Job Access and Reverse     |
| Commute grants in FY 1999, provide a report depicting progress toward |
| meeting project goals/objectives and performance information on the   |
| items described above.**                                              |
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| **Document financial commitments. (15 Points)**                       |
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| **Document sources, or expected sources, of matching funds.**         |
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| **Provide letters of financial commitment, or intent to commit, that  |
| document local match.**                                               |
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| **Identify how TANF, WtW, other Federal, state or local financial     |
| resources will be leveraged.**                                        |
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| **Identify the financial commitment of existing transportation        |
| providers.**                                                          |
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| **Identify employer-provided resources.**                             |
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| **Identify long-term financing that may be proposed or available to   |
| support continuation of the proposed project or other aspects of the  |
| regional plan, including continued transit, human service and         |
| employer provided financial resources.**                              |
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| **For application for continuation of services previously funded in   |
| FY 1999, applicants must provide information on financial commitments |
| plus information drawn from their progress reports that demonstrates  |
| achievements in meeting project objectives, including the number      |
| of:**                                                                 |
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| **New employment sites reached.**                                     |
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| **New employers reached.**                                            |
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| **New jobs reached.**                                                 |
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| **New employment support facilities reached.**                        |
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| **New residential areas served with target populations.**             |
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| **Ridership on new services, including, if available, number of       |
| welfare recipients and low-income persons served, \[these figures may |
| be generated by periodic surveys\].**                                 |
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| **Cost per rider.**                                                   |
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| **Additional vehicle hours of services provided.**                    |
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| **Other progress and results toward meeting project goals.**          |
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| ***Other Review Considerations (Refer to: VI. Grant Review            |
| Process)***                                                           |
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| *1.**Innovative Approaches***                                         |
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| *FTA encourages applicants to consider the use of innovative          |
| technological and methodological approaches, such as transportation   |
| mobility management/brokerage institutional arrangements and the      |
| application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Intelligent   |
| Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies, and geographic             |
| distribution of project funding. For further information on the       |
| deployment of innovation in the Job Access Program, see FTA\'s Joint  |
| Partnership Program description at -                                  |
| http://www.fta.dot.gov/research/implem/jpp/jppidt.htm*                |
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| *2. **Expected timeframe for project initiatives***                   |
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