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Minot transit superintendent urges state help after reclassification cut federal funding and flags aging fleet
Summary
Minot City Transit told legislators federal reclassification reduced stable formula funding, creating a volatile dependence on performance 'stick' metrics and local-match pressures; Minot detailed an aging fleet, rising maintenance costs, and a plan to buy a refurbished bus to shorten lead time and lower replacement cost.
Minot City Transit told a legislative subcommittee that federal reclassification from rural to urban funding has reduced consistent federal formula dollars, leaving the agency more dependent on volatile performance-based "stick" payments and limited local-match options.
"This change resulted in reduced federal formula funding compared to our rural allocations," Minot Transit Superintendent Brian Horeca said, describing the 2023 reclassification after the 2020 census. Horeca said Minot moved from FTA 5311 rural subrecipient status into the 5307 urban formula program and that the agency now faces unpredictability: "We don't know if that $500,000 is going to be there" when planning budgets.
Horeca outlined operational statistics…
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