On July 25, Megan Davey Limarzi, Inspector General of Montgomery County, Maryland, issued a blistering memorandum regarding her office's investigation into Montgomery County Public Schools' catastrophic management of an electric bus contract, which has cost taxpayers millions and forced MCPS to rely on diesel buses.
Alas, Limarzi found that the electric bus contractor "Did not deliver any of the buses expected in FY2022 through FY2024 by August 1st as required by the agreement's delivery schedule."
With that in mind, MCPS should have assessed fees, as it would have done under a diesel bus contract.
MCPS ignored the electric buses' chronic mechanical failures.
Despite the contractor's repeated failures to service the buses, MCPS inexplicably assessed no fees.
MCPS has spent another $14,749,919 on 90 diesel buses to cover the shortfall.
Again better to make taxpayers foot the bill than to entertain questions about electric buses' reliability.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/school-district-turns-diesel-attempt-convert-bus-fleet/
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