City Council decides to partially fund public transit

  • A Rapides Area Planning Commission delivered some of its clients to the City Council meeting Wednesday.
    A Rapides Area Planning Commission delivered some of its clients to the City Council meeting Wednesday.

    At its meeting Monday, The City Council voted to provide local match funding for a public transportation system provided by the Rapides Area Planning Commission (RAPC).

    At the June 10 meeting, the Council unanimously voted not to provide the match funding of $40,500 that RAPC needed to keep the pilot program operating another year in the city. The main reasons the Council members were against it at…