Triangle Business Journal reports:
The North Carolina Department of Transportation says it will end an 11-year, low-income rural vanpool program in the face of a critical state audit that identified questionable expenses and trips.
State Auditor Beth Wood says the Triangle-based non-profit contractor that provided the service, 2Plus Inc., used “a significant number of vans… to transport South Carolina residents to places of employment in North Carolina,” while other vans “were utilized by a resort on the Outer Banks to shuttle its nonresident alien workers between the resort property and local housing.”
Wood says that, for the most of the program’s life, DOT did not have a formal contract with 2Plus. She also identified $163,272 in “excessive or unreasonable” expenses in mileage fees, backup van fees and insurance deductibles.
