Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells will be looking for answers from D.C. Department of Public Works officials Thursday during a hearing on the procurement of city vehicles.
The hearing was inspired by the revelation that the city had acquired “fully loaded” Lincoln Navigators under pricey leases for D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and Mayor Vince Gray. Brown has asked that the two Navigators leased at his request – the first didn’t have the right interior color – be returned. City officials say they have been, although the attorney general’s office is still negotiating to get back a portion of a $17,000 in prepayments made on one of Brown’s Navigators.
Wells says he’s planning to quiz officials on the lease for the mayor’s Navigator as well as well as the city’s repeated breaking of a 2004 law that makes it illegal to buy sport utility vehicle.
Last week, The Washington Examiner reported that nearly half of the District’s agency directors have personal use of city-owned vehicles.
