"Wave does have plans to expand to Carolina Beach, but no money to pay for it."
In other words, we can't provide the service, but neither can you. Well here's an idea - if WAVE can't do it, WAVE needs to shut up!
Obviously they're worried that this woman may be able to operate without a massive taxpayer subsidy, exposing WAVE for the bottomless money-pit it is.
I say let the woman try to make a go of it with her shuttle. If she can pull it off, maybe we could bring her in to run a privatized WAVE that paid for itself.
Typical county government tyranny