The application is for operating preventive maintenance capital and ADA paratransit expenses

The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration awarded the City of Salisbury, North Carolina $997,100 under the Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507) on June 25, 2026.

The funding supports operating expenses and preventive maintenance capital for the city's demand-responsive ADA paratransit system, which operates wheelchair lift-equipped vans serving citizens in Salisbury, Spencer, and East Spencer who cannot access the fixed-route bus system due to functional disability. The grant enables the city to continue offering safe, efficient, and affordable transportation alternatives that improve access to employment, social, recreational, educational, and medical facilities across the three municipalities in Rowan County.

The award obligates $997,100 with a performance period extending through March 30, 2032. No sub-recipients are identified for this award.

Activities

Funding allows the city to continue offering safe efficient and affordable transportation alternative to the general public in the cities of salisbury spencer and east spencer; thus permitting greater accessibility to employment social recreational educational and medical facilities. Funding supports our demand responsive ADA paratransit system that includes wheelchair lift-equipped vans to accommodate citizens unable to access our fixed route bus system because of a functional disability.

Expected outcomes

Continue offering safe efficient and affordable transportation alternative to the general public.

Intended beneficiaries

Citizens in the cities of salisbury spencer and east spencer. All three cities are in rowan county.