Columbia's Fleet Operations Division hopes for increase in budget, staff

Monday, September 20, 2010 | 5:59 p.m. CDT; updated 8:35 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, September 28, 2010

COLUMBIA — Engines roar as mechanics climb under buses, inside the trunks of police cars and onto the tops of fire engines. Eighteen of the 20 bays at the city of Columbia's fleet operations shop are filled with all sorts of vehicles, including para-transit vans, garbage trucks and street sweepers.

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