Brent Cagle
speaker
2,705 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
Brent Cagle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So fiscal year starts July 1st, 2026.
We're halfway through a January 1st, 2027.
That half of the budget is for the city of Charlotte and that's why you see nothing beyond that.
At the same time, we are projecting the rest of the operating budget for the MPTA and so what you see in 2027 is the other half of that 12 month budget plus future budgeted expenditures beyond that.
What are we spending the money on?
Safety and security is a priority.
We have approximately $5 million budgeted for off-duty CMPD support.
That is, again, the full year cost.
We also have an additional $5 million programmed for fare enforcement, a dedicated unit to go through and increase fare enforcement activity throughout the system, not just on rail, but bus and rail throughout the entire transit system.
We have an additional $2 million for microtransit service expansions.
$6 million in support of better bus.
$4 million increase to support our state of good repairs in our facilities group.
And then again, approximately $19 million for the organizational capacity and resilience.
That is really targeted staffing for new functions, selective outsourcing, managed services, and system upgrades to sustain reliability and compliance with federal, reliability of the system and compliance with federal guidelines.
A little bit deeper dive safety improvements.
I'm sure you're all aware that we have been funding
between 1,200 and 1,400 hours a week of off-duty CMPD officers.
This will continue the program.
Actually every week so far for this month and every week except for the first week of February, we've seen more than 1,400 hours or more.
We will continue that program into next fiscal year.
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