Trimet sock puppets and pork barrel meeting today

heres my expert analysis 🐷 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷

$196 million dollars please
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/19-09-70a%20-%20Attachment%20A-Grants.pdf
Title 6 bullshit that has no actual effect in the real world but provides a lot of employment opportunities
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-69.pdf
I guess this is related to the $196 million above
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-70.pdf
This should be internal union work but as we all know TriMet is the leader in the privatization movement in Oregon- $1.3 million
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-71.pdf
I don’t know how many times they are gonna replace signals on the steel bridge but it seems to keep happening, they will be shutting down the bridge for a month next August - a no bid contract for $2million with an extra $300 thousand on demand
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-72.pdf
Consultants for the ridiculous division gentrification pork barrel-only one bidder-$1.3 million
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-73.pdf
No bid contract for ruby expansion-$2.8 million
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-74.pdf
TriMet has dozens and dozens of engineers but they always seem to have to contract out for ‘design services’. This is the idiotic red line ‘improvement’.  $13,600,000. What a waste
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-75.pdf
An extra $7 million dollars please, plus another 10% over that, Cause in the land of da free corporations get what they want while we get bullied for $2.50
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-76.pdf
This is interesting. The technocrats want to ‘refurbish’ 3 forty foot buses from diesel to electric, 1 sixty  foot bus from diesel to electric  (huh?) and refurbish 5 forty foot diesel buses. Only $6.2 million dollars. What a deal
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-77.pdf
$204,000,000 to NOVA for the purchase of 60’ buses for the Division gentrification
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/pdfs/2019-09-18/Res%2019-09-78.pdf