Republic file photo Columbus City Hall is shown in downtown Columbus.
The city’s transit department has transferred a couple of cutaway buses they’re no longer using to two other city departments.
The Board of Public Works and Safety passed a resolution approving the transfer of a 2016 and 2017 Ford F350 cutaway bus to public works and Columbus Animal Care Services (CACS).
Matt Dudukovich, transit director, told the board that the two buses are no longer being used for day-to-day transportation and CACS, along with public works have indicated an interest in another passenger vehicle.
Mayor Mary Ferdon mentioned that the CACS bus may be used in conjunction with the Bartholomew County Humane Society (BCHS) for a mobile veterinary clinic that would provide low-cost spay and neuter services, which Dudukovich said has yet to be finalized.
“I do now that we’ve outfitted it so that animal care services can use it for transportation, for medical care, for spay and neuter services,” Dudukovich told the board. “There is an aspiration in the future that collaboratively the Humane Society and animal care services would be able to do low-cost spaying and neutering, but that’s a future aspiration.”
Dudukovich, who also is vice president of the board at BCHS, noted that “Our surrounding counties and the county of Bartholomew are truly in desperate need for such care.”
