PORT HOOD: For the next two months, Inverness Municipal Council will foot the bill for Strait Area Transit allowing a review of services to be completed that should tell the municipal unit if it will remain as a funding partner.
Council had originally agreed to help fund the bussing service last April. That agreement was for an eight-month period.
“To do the full review, we’ll need a couple more months,” said councillor Jim Mustard, who is also the chair of the SAT board of directors.
“I think we’ll be able to review it as a council and either go forward or not.”
Council passed a motion to provide two months of interim funding with that money taken from the municipality’s operating reserve.
“What we wanted to do when we ran this pilot was to put in place a consistent transit that the public could count on,” Mustard said. “Up until then, we had some starts and stops in terms of the overall service offered. These last two years, between the management we’ve offered and the maintenance and the vehicles, we’ve been able to keep a consistent transit on the road.
“I think we’re ready to put a review together so that, as a team, we can put some evaluation forward.”