Clallam Transit proposes cuts, fare hikes
March 11th, 2010 - 2:49am
(Port Angeles) -- Clallam Transit may cut some services and raise fares in order to make its budget.
The transit system will hold 3 public hearings in the coming weeks to get input on a pair of proposals that aimed to save money and increase income.
Transit manager Terry Weed says the system has been relying too heavily on reserves for the past three years and can't sustain it any longer.
Weed says if current conditions continue unchanged, Clallam Transit will exhaust the reserves by 2012.
More than 700-thousand dollars from the reserves will likely be needed to balance the 2010 operating budget of 7-point-48 million.
Clallam Transit proposes eliminating service on four holidays saving about 64 thousand dollars.
The system also proposes raising fares on all transit service by 25-cents for each boarding. That would bring in just under 90-thousand dollars in revenue.
Weed says all of the proposed changes won't fix the long-term issues facing the transit system namely a need for more sales-tax revenues.
The first hearings on the proposed changes to Holiday Service and the Fare Structure will be Monday at 1 p.m. in the Sequim Transit Center, 190 West Cedar.
A Port Angeles hearing, dealing exclusively with the Fare structure changes, is set for Monday, April 19th at 1 p.m. in the Clallam Transit System office.
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