Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority
2025 Administrative Budget

Budget line	Expenditures	Amount
1.	Personnel costs	$472,000
	Indirect costs	$162,000
		$634,000
2.	Contract Services
	Legal	$100,000
	Lobbyist	$16,200
	Auditing	$7,200
	Ballot measure expenses	$0
	Total contract services	$123,400
3.	Insurance	$35,000
4.	Other operational expenses	$45,600
5.	Public outreach activities	$13,000
	Total Administrative	$851,000
	Percentage of Revenue Budget	0.52%

Exhibit A

Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (PPRTA)
2024 Administrative Budget Details

1. Personnel and Overhead Costs:
   Personnel costs include salary and fringe benefits for the proposed 3 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) employees for the PPRTA. The three FTE’s are employed through PPACG working on the PPRTA. The fringe benefits include payroll taxes, retirement contributions, and the various insurance programs: health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D. Duties include Program/Contracts Management and the Financial Management duties. Other portions of full-time equivalents include the estimated time required of existing PPACG Administration staff to administer the PPRTA contract including, but not limited to, meeting minutes, packet construction, web site administration, mapping and annual report design and production. Some of the other services provided include processing payments to vendors, financial reporting, contract administration, field verification, Board and Citizen Advisory Committee research/support and optimizing sales/use tax revenue.
   
   Overhead costs include postage, general office supplies, copying services, printing supplies, reference publications, software upgrades, building costs including maintenance, repairs, snow and garbage removal.
   
2. Contract Services:
   Contract services include fees for auditing, general legal services, State legislative lobbyist, Ballot measure expenses, and Engineering estimates for future capital projects for the next ballot initiative.
   
3. Insurance:
   Insurance expense is for a million-dollar Directors and Officers Liability and General Liability policies.
   
4. Other Operational Expenses:
   Other Operational expenses include mileage reimbursement for vehicle use to monitor construction projects maintenance projects, public transportation services and capital projects in the PPRTA boundary. Additionally, this category includes specific office items, training, support for accounting and web site software.
   
5. Public Outreach:
   Public outreach funds cover the cost of reproducing and publishing the annual report in the Pikes Peak RTA area and web site upgrades.