“We just can’t do this for another year.”
The Brooks Bulletin
Contract negotiations between the city and the Newell Community Action Group for Brooks handibus service that were first reported in the Bulletin in March have gone nowhere.
NCAG executive director Pat Whyte says in June she provided the city with a 2008-2009 budget showing a $67,000 shortfall. She says she hasn’t heard anything in response from the city.
“Yet in our contract with the city it says we should never run at a shortfall,” she said. Last week Whyte sent another letter to the city asking for amendments to be made to their contract with the city effective January 1, 2009.
Currently the city provides the NCAG with $1,998 per month to operate the handibus and puts another $2000 per month into a reserve for a new handibus should one be needed.
Monthly expenditures related to handibus service in Brooks amount to well over $2000, with driver’s pay and fuel for the bus exceeding the amount provided by the city.....
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