By: Diane Benjamin

When free money is handed to you there is no incentive to care about how it’s spent. Are any of the huge electric buses Connect spent at least $16 million on running?

Now that Connect wants to expand Flex service, they need more vehicles.

PDF page 22 https://connect-transit.com/file/3569/05%2027%202025_BoT%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf

Yes taxpayers, they are starting with THREE of these electric vehicles. Quote: The total cost per vehicle will be a maximum of $309,626.11 depending on options chosen.

Pictures are on that page. It looks like a fancy mini-van with a wheelchair ramp.

Over the next 5 years they could be buying more.

PDF page 25: ObamaCare was obviously a failure at controlling costs

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Loss for the month: $1,451,888.

One more note, I still haven’t seen how much they plan to sell the downtown property for to Home Sweet Home Mission.