WMATA: wasteful lease?
WMATA's board approved a lease of office space in Silver Spring, Maryland, even though the agency has a huge, mostly empty warehouse in Landover, Maryland.
Currently occupying the Silver Spring space are offices for Metro's paratransit contractor, as well as the Metro phone customer service center.
Board members noted the huge amount of space in Landover, but they rubber stamped the lease anyway.
"[Metro CEO Richard] White said that Metro did not know how much space is available at the [Landover warehouse] because no one at the agency has been tracking how the facility is used."
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massysett | 9:26 AM |
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What's a "paratransit contractor"?
Paratransit -- provision of services to the disabled. Around here they call it MetroAccess:
http://www.wmata.com/metroaccess/access_form.cfm
Metro pays contractors to run the paratransit program.
I missed this last week. Wow, this is disturbing. All of a sudden Richard White recognizes the need to hire a new $80,000/year person to coordinate space utilization at the agency? They've been operating without this being addressed ... for how long?
Oy.
