By: Diane Benjamin Board packet: Connect Transit 4/22/25 Items of note: The Salary increase isn’t in the packet. Staff recommends not releasing any Executive Session Minutes – PDF page 52 . The meeting video is very hard to hear even with the sound all the way up. When the Board returned from Executive Session they […]
By: Diane Benjamin PDF page 7 – The budgeted loss for the year is $16,350,921. That means Connect should be losing $1,362,577 a month. In September they only lost $1,148,129. The budgeted loss increased $2,593,421 this year. See last fiscal year, PDF page 7 https://www.connect-transit.com/file/686/08%2023%202022_Board%20of%20Trustees%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf Over $13,000 was spent on Travel and Meetings, of course […]
By: Diane Benjamin Some people think Medicare for All would be fabulous. Dig slightly deeper folks, it would be a disaster! Compare Medicare for All to Connect Transit. Some people think access to public transportation is a “right”, these same people think healthcare is a “right”. Neither are “rights” because both require other people to […]
By: Diane Benjamin The waste of valuable resources continued in March. The far right column is year-to-date, 3 months remain in their fiscal year. https://www.connect-transit.com/documents/April%20Connect%20Transit%20Board%20Packet%204-19.pdf Nobody should be surprised by Mike McCurdy’s comments in the article below. He is not listening to the people. He was appointed by Chris Koos who also doesn’t listen […]
