OCEAN CITY – Starting next November, the city’s bus service will be scaled back through the off-season months, eliminating the third shift that runs through the night during the week and returning to operating 24 hours a day on the weekends.
During budget wrap-up last Friday, city staff and the Mayor and City Council continued discussions over methods to increase revenue and cut costs to fill a budget shortfall in the FY14 budget.
A couple weeks ago, Public Works Director Hal Adkins presented two “extreme” options in decreasing the transit service. Both options left the service the same in the summer months, May-September, but if the bus service were to be completely eliminated in the off-season, October-April, it would reduce the subsidy by $1.67 million. The other option was to limit the bus service in the off-season to run only Friday-Sunday, which would result in a $1.42 million reduction.
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So the union members get to enjoy annual raises, but the citizens of the city have to deal with cuts in order to enable the union sponges to get their fill?
ReplyDeleteNot too mention the already low paid bus drivers who will be out a job. Those men and ladies deserve much more wages then they get. I rode the bus.....once and that was enough. It's a dangerous job and they are sitting ducks unlike the PD who are armed.
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