Last night's LSC Finance Subcommittee meeting was pretty much exclusively about the transportation portion of the school budget and it is a significant part of the overall budget so it warranted special scrutiny. The chairman of the committee is Donna Coppola and the other members are are Maria Carrasco and Rick Starrbard.Dave Egan, head of the transportation department, came in to be grilled.
For the most part it was a polite exchange and most of the answers provided to questions only led to more questions. Rick Starrbard started off by asking the question "Why the $600,000 increase in the transportation budget?" but he was satisfied by the documents Mr. Egan had recently given all the LSC members. It provided a more detailed list of expenditures than had previously provided.
It seems like the transportation costs were just all covered in a lump sum so nobody could be really sure where the money was being spent. It was felt you had to know where the money was being spent in order to know where to cut going forward. Mr. Egan has a difficult job tying to navigate not only the sometime pothole riddled streets of Lynn, arrange for transportation for students placed outside of Lynn, but also deal with griping concerned parents like me.
Hopefully in the future, we will be able to reign in costs so that our money can be spent on education not transportation.
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