EDITOR: The April 29 Morgan Hill Times article entitled
“VTA: Financial woes force cutbacks in paratransit” serves to
show what arrogance a “public service” organization adopts when it
refuses to face the fact that has become dysfunctional to its own
mission.
EDITOR:
The April 29 Morgan Hill Times article entitled “VTA: Financial woes force cutbacks in paratransit” serves to show what arrogance a “public service” organization adopts when it refuses to face the fact that has become dysfunctional to its own mission.
George Tacke, the manager of accessible services for the VTA, offers an idiotic cost reduction proposal, “that the VTA limit service to three-quarters of a mile from the nearest bus or light rail service”.
May I suggest that if the VTA is going to offer three-quarters of the service, they make three-quarters of their pay check? In practice, this suggestion alone would save the VTA over $50 million in 2004 and solve the budget “crisis” well into the future, maybe forever.
I propose that the Board of Directors get serious about solving the real problem at the VTA; too many employees and bloated senior management paychecks.
John Murphy,
San Martin
