Transit and Paratransit Services

At a glance

• What: City transit and paratransit service.
• Where it stands: agenda items 2026-09-08: a refurbished transit bus (Complete Coach Works) with a 5339 grant, and a 2027-2028 paratransit contract with Souris Basin Transportation (2027-01-04 through 2028-12-31); a bus budget amendment second reading followed 2026-09-21.
• Next: check minutes.

Details

• Only agenda items were read.
• Built from agendas only; the posted minutes and agenda packets were not read, so outcomes are not recorded.

Sources

• Agenda for 2026-09-08: https://minotnd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7552,plainText=false)
• Agenda for 2026-09-21: https://minotnd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7561,plainText=false)

Log

2026-09-08 - City Council

• Consent: 2027-2028 paratransit services contract with Souris Basin Transportation; addition of voluntary separation incentive language to the 2026 pay plan; a position regrade recommended by the Civil Service Commission on August 14; first reading of the personal appearances order of business ordinance.
• Action: budget amendments for a 52-inch grandstand mower, a 5339 grant and refurbished transit bus (Complete Coach Works), a police K9 and pound services donation, and a $124,945 State Homeland Security Grant award for the police bomb squad and SWAT team.

2026-09-21 - City Council

• Second readings of budget amendments for a mower, a refurbished bus, police donations for K9s and pound services, and the FY25 police State Homeland Security Grant (Ordinances 6247 to 6250).