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The Public Works Committee met on October 13, 2026, at 2:00 PM with all committee members present. The committee approved the consent agenda and discussed three general agenda items: an ordinance updating solid waste collections, an update on the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Streetscape project, and the NCDOT Prioritization 8.0 Division Needs Projects update. Staff also reported on WISTA transit ridership gains and previewed upcoming agenda items.
You're watching WSTV Digital Media, good afternoon. Welcome to the October Public Works meeting. All committee members are present and we're ready to begin. Committee members, uh would anyone like to pull a consent item? We have four. Okay. We're ready to vote. I'm I apologize. Okay. C two. C three. I move approval of the balance. Okay. Is there a second? Second. All in favor, let us note by saying aye. Aye. City clerk, would you please read consent agenda? C three. Thank you. Item C three resolution approving the continuation of the bus pass match distribution program. Thank you. Mr. Fancler, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Madam Chair, members of the committee. Jeff Fanzer, Director of Transportation. Council members, there's a specific question, or do you want me to cover the item? Uh sir. Thank you for uh being willing to speak. Um I know that we've had conversations about this. Um I've had a lot of uh local organizations ask me about the application process for this. Just for public record, could you kind of go over some of the basis of these application processes? So thank you for that question, Councilmember. So this program is essentially a one-to-one match where nonprofits qualifying nonprofits could petition the city of Western Department of Transportation for matching bus pass rise. And that is done via application. Uh and so they'll reach out to our department and they'll request an application. And we screen a couple things. We want to make sure they are they are currently a 501c3. They are valid in the state of North Carolina, and they are uh they provide their services within, of course, the city of Western Salem. Uh but the primary thing that we're looking for, Councilmember, is to make sure they have a process for determining how they are distributing these passes to uh folks of low income. And so we've asked that the uh the nonprofit applying show us how they would um screen their applicants and their in their clientele for um to meet the income requirements, and that's just document that process. We're not going to look at individual applicants. All we're going to do is verify the nonprofit is presenting information on their process for satisfying the low-income requirement. Thank you, sir. That's it.