...come up with a recommendation for the city council about dispatching and hiring a fiscal clerk. During the meeting, Sue Siemers of the Minnesota Department of Transportation and county commissioners Dewey Tautges and Gary Walters tried to address...

...for the project. He said he also felt misled. "(I) thought we were told that we will be funded if we apply." Sue Siemers, MnDOT project manager, came on board in May and said she thought she made it clear to the committee that there was...

...steering committee being formed?" Olson also said it was Nesheim who lied in claiming it was others, such as Larson and Sue Siemers, the state office of transit project manager, who said they couldn't work with Koep and Olson. Nesheim didn't...

...would be about $54,000 or 33 percent of the costs. Brainerd would pay about $164,000 or 67 percent of the costs. Sue Siemers of MnDOT said the state will only fund the project if there is a joint powers agreement between the county and city...

...that," Nesheim said. "However, we want to expedite it." Nesheim said a small steering committee is meeting with Sue Siemers, the office of transit project manager, at 2:30 p.m. today at city hall. Steering committee members are Nesheim...

...share at 40 percent -- would also change to a 65-35 split. The 5 percent savings for Brainerd could begin Jan. 1. Sue Siemers, MnDOT project manager, told meeting attendees they needed to start thinking of the transit service as one system...

...the economic means to support a taxi service. Nadeau also researched taxi cab subsidy potential from transit money. Sue Siemers, Minnesota Department of Transportation project manager, said if a taxi reimbursement was made, the city would have...

...Dewey Tautges. "So the people know. They think county buses are taking city people and it is hurting Brainerd." Sue Siemers of the Minnesota Department of Transportation said she would like to have one transit system where there would be no...