The Bruce Grey Huron Disability Transportation Corporation is in crisis mode and it’s up to member municipalities to save it.
Ongoing talks with the Ministry of Transportation has quashed all hope that gas tax funding could be used to fund operational costs of the Bruce Grey Huron Disability Transportation Corporation.
Chair Selwyn Hicks says it’s going to take a significant municipal buy-in to save the corporation.
He says the province has made it very clear that disability transporation is the responsibility of the municipalities–not the province.
Hicks says the only to save the corporation is if the member municipalities of Arran Elderslie, Hanover, Brockton and West Grey include a line in their municipal budgets for the disability corporation.
He says unless these member municipalities agree to buy into the corporation, the company will lose out on half a million dollars in capital funding from the province.
Hicks says the disability corporation is now going to revise its budget in the hopes of convincing member municipalities to buy into the business.
The Bruce Grey Huron Disability Corporation is currently working with a $305,000 budget.
Hicks says it’s too soon to say what the revised budget will be–only that it will be lower than this.
Hicks calls the disability transportation service a priority saying without it many of society’s most vulnerable woruld be without a means of transportation.
The disability transportation service caters to seniors as well as those with special needs.