operating EXPENSES summary

operating expenses pie chart Wages – Planned and fiscally necessary service consolidations will keep our wage increase to a minimum for fiscal year 2010. This is attributed to a reduction in overtime associated with the consolidations.

Benefits – Increases to employee benefits are almost entirely due to the additional cost in providing employee health care coverage. The remainder of the decrease may be attributed to CDTA contributions to social security. This increase is unusually low for this item as we expect employee turnover to remain low.

Maintenance and Operations – The introduction of newer vehicles into our fleet and less overall miles expected in revenue service for fiscal year 2010 will help to keep the increase to a minimum for this line item.

Purchased Transportation – The large increase in this line is attributed to a new contract brokered by Access Transit in addition to taxis for non‐ambulatory customers that supplements the continued increase in STAR ridership.

Insurance – This line has remained relatively flat.

Fuel – A common theme throughout this budget will be the successful fuel contract CDTA locked in for fiscal year 2010. This is the only major expense category that decreased from last year. As a result, it accounts for the overall decrease in the Authority’s expenses.