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Infrastructure committee backs transit funding request and forwards bus purchase to finance
Summary
City staff asked the committee to support a FY27 transit funding request and to recommend purchase of two CDL buses; the committee voted to send both items to the finance committee for inclusion on the consent agenda.
The City of Roswell Infrastructure Committee on July 21 voted to forward a resolution supporting the Roswell/Lowndesville Transit Bureau's FY2027 funding request and to recommend purchase of two CDL buses for city transit.
Transit staff told the committee the transit bureau requested $952,171.12 from the city for FY27, saying that figure includes $70,002.85 in administrative expenses, $829,200 in operating expenses and $52,685.60 in capital expenses. "We have requested $952,171.12 in support from the city of Roswell," the presenter said. Committee members moved to forward the resolution to the finance committee for approval as part of the consent agenda.
Committee members also discussed using previously collected insurance funds held by NMDOT to apply toward buses the city ordered. Staff said $114,008.37 in insurance funds are available at NMDOT, which would cover the city's 20 percent share on new buses; one purchase will still require a local payment of $8,088.07 that staff said would be covered by an existing city budget line. The presenter described accounting complications across fiscal years and said proceeds from recent disposals (a bus sold for $4,000 and two more anticipated sales) should reduce the net local cost.
Council members requested the item go to finance so the amendment to the city budget can be incorporated. A motion to send the bus purchase recommendation to finance with the city cost of $8,088.07 to be transferred from an approved budget line carried with no dissent.
Committee members also discussed branding and advertising on buses after staff said state DOT personnel prefer a consistent public-transit look rather than multiple departmental advertisements. Staff said DOT had raised the issue but that the city could continue current practices so long as state funding was not jeopardized.
The committee took no final appropriation on the floor; it recommended the resolution and the purchase to the finance committee for placement on the consent agenda and for the formal budget adjustment process.
