City Commission To Wait One Week To Consider Donation To People's Transit

People's TransitThe Huron City Commission will take a week to decide if a donation of 20-thousand dollars to People’s Transit is the best use of city funds to keep the service in the black. The transit system’s books are approximately 70-thousand dollars in the hole. Commissioner Doug Kludt supports the city supporting People’s Transit, but has two concerns….

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Commissioner Mark Robish agreed with Kludt and says if the city steps up, then he want’s more disclosure from the transit system…

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Mayor Paul Aylward is the liaison to the People’s Transit board and attends their monthly meetings regularly. He believes the group is watching their wallet…

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The City of Huron normally budgets six-thousand dollars for People’s Transit. Commissioners agreed they’d like to look over People’s Transit’s books before making a one-time donation that large and will look at possibly increasing the annual donation as a part of developing next year’s city budget. The Huron City Commission will consider the donation again next week.