This morning, the BOE held a special meeting to approve the transfer of 78 routes from Negba Bus Service to Jay’s Bus service, after Negba was temporarily disqualified as a bidder. In place of going out to bid on these routes and facing a probable increase in cost due to the higher bidding history of the other companies, the Board voted to allow the transfer which would keep the price the same as last year with no increase on these 78 routes. The remaining 26 routes will go out to bid and will possibly cost the district up to $60,000 dollars more for just those routes.
The Board also agreed to reduce the time limit on Negba before they can once again do business in Lakewood from 3 years to 2 years. Negba agreed to forgo their appeal to the commissioner and any future lawsuits pertaining to this matter.
Starting on September 1st 2011 Jay’s Bus service will begin servicing these 78 routes.
Negba Attorney Larry Loigman and Jay’s Attorney Steve Secare were also in attendance at the meeting and agreed to all the terms. TLS.
60000 more??????????? keep those with negba!
How on earth does letting companies bid and compete cause prices to rise?
I agree!
In the State of NJ the laws pertaining to busing bids are very particular. Typically each bid has 2 or 3 companies coming back with closed bids. They review the routes and submit their lowest price. On these 78 routes Negba came in cheapest and won the bid. By removing them, the other companies in all probability will resubmit their old bids on these routes. Based on what is known to the BOE, their old bids were higher than Negba by approximately 200,000 dollars. One can safely assume that they would definetly not lower their bids now that Negba is out of the picture. By Jay’s taking 78 routes it eliminated the possibility on those routes and avoided 140,000 dollars worth of risk. the remaining 26 routes, based on the previous bids will be about 60k higher. This should clarify why the numbers make sense. In essence there already is competition in the field so the price that the other companies are willing to take is a known factor.
This will save the district hundreds of thousands because all the other routes would have gone out to bid. If Jay wouldn’t have made this purchase Gas prices are triple than when most of these routes were initially bid on! You can only figure that today these routes would be much more expensive. Finally the BOE does something to save the taxpayer!
$60,000 hmmmm….sounds like (moderated) to me.
Now that Jays has all of these new routes, I hope they rent Negba’s busses and hire their drivers. This will help ease some of Negba’s terrible loss and allow the drivers to keep their jobs.
Jay’s IS buying the buses (at top dollar) and hiring the GOOD drivers. Negba’s losses has turned into a tidy profit from this little deal!!
Why doesn’t the township take over the routes and cut out the middleman? The private companies are obviously making a profit off the routes, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. If the township takes over, taxpayers would save money, and our taxes might actually come down
to # 6- they are.
And for that reason they did not go and bid new instead of taking over the old bid- because they rather help a yid then look out for themself. Kol Hakavod!
Great idea!! One problem though – Township employees are unionized!! Imagine paying benefits and pensions and raises and dues and everything else for the drivers and dispatchers etc!! It would send us all to the poorhouse! GET RID OF THE UNIONS!
to #10
“History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Unions are what made this country the prosperous country it was, it was the systematic destruction of the unions over the past several decades that has destroyed this country. UNIONIZE NOW!
I hope the other bus companies in Lakewood file a lawsuit because this is clearly favoritism to a single company.
Hey Scratching my head:
The BOE did own the buses many years ago. But the BOE sold them off and went to bid to save money, here we go round and a round. when the BOE ran the buses they paid a decent wage with benefits and people complained about the cost of owning the buses!
Number 14, I am glad you sent the history of past owned bussing transportation by the BOE.
At that time, it was said that this rise in cost would occur, sometime in the future. That future has materialized.
To # 12 look what happened to GM and other unionized company’s they can’t compete with the cheaper imported cars or other imports I guess you should wake up from being in the 50’s
Jays has a great track record. He is a mentch. Ask anyone that ever dealt with them. May he only have mazel and bracha..
If you leave things up to the boe things get done correctly. When you have outside influence things don’t go as well as many people don’t have minds of there own
Jays needs to carefully look at who drivers are, some are fine, I know of one driver that calls kids monkeys and has an underlyig anti-simetic tone when he screems at them.
TO #14 YOU ARE WAY OFF ON YOUR THEORY. THE BOE IN THE 80’S HAD SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH BUS DRIVERS GRIEVING EVERY LITTLE THING THAT IT TOOK AWAY FROM THE ADMINISRATOR THAT OVERSEES THAT DEPT., THE ASST BUSINESS ADM. OF HIS REGULAR DUTIES AS PURCHASING AGENT. BIDDING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SELLING OF BUSES. YOU BID WHEN YOU GO OUT FOR SPECIFIC ROUTES. TO SUM IT UP THE BUS DRIVERS WERE UNION SO THIS CAUSED MANY PROBLEMS. AT THAT TIME THE BOARD HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO OUT-SOURCE. BELIEVE ME I KNOW, I WAS THERE.