Legislature to study state vehicles

Philly.com is reporting today that the senate has submitted a bill to being a study of the use of state vehicles:

The New Jersey Senate's state government committee yesterday advanced a measure to study how to reduce the roughly 7,000 vehicles used for state business.

During the next five fiscal years, supporters say, the state could save an estimated $28 million. That would be offset by money the state spends on mileage reimbursements for employees who use their personal vehicles instead. There is no estimate on how much the reimbursements would total, according to the bill.

It is not clear whether the savings estimates are too high or grossly underestimate the costs of the states vehicle fleet. What is clear is that our state has WAY too many state owned vehicles sitting in people's driveways at night. And judging from the number of state vehicles converging on Trenton every day from every direction, one suspects that for many these vehicles are perks, not requirements of their job.

Read the entire article here.

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