By: Diane Benjamin
I have not finished reading everything I received. There is likely more to report. Make sure you read to the bottom. Connect’s General Manager doesn’t want you to know any of this.
Refer back to the HUGE November loss: https://blnnews.com/2024/01/23/connect-loses-more-than-the-coliseum/
Salaries were almost twice normal. I thought Connect had a hiring spree of drivers and were no longer understaffed. Evidently many of those new hires didn’t stick around. They are still hiring drivers: https://connect-transit.com/contact/careers/open-positions
The only reference I’ve found so far is this:

Overtime!
Below is a memorandum based on the email I printed in the previous story: https://blnnews.com/2024/01/23/proterra-is-solyndra/
None of this will be discussed at today’s Board Meeting – see the bottom of page 2. Is media worried about not being told the facts? I doubt it. That means YOU are the media! Share.



This will make the board meeting extremely interesting!
Only if people show up for Public Comment! They never do . . .
Looks like some more battery packs likely headed to a landfill. Why no telling how large they are.
This is quite amazing. The Connect leadership would never spend their own money on expensive unproven vehicles, but have no problem spending your money on it. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together could have foreseen that this was never going to work out