Nassau County’s bus provider will fill its latest seven-figure budget gap without cutting service or raising fares, the agency’s chief said Thursday.
The rare bit of good financial news for bus riders in the county came at a meeting of Nassau’s Bus Transit Committee, which voted to approve the $130 million annual operating budget for the Nassau Inter-County Express, or NICE Bus.
In September, NICE chief executive Michael Setzer told the committee that the county bus system was facing a $2 million budget gap — the fifth such deficit in the six years that NICE has existed.
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