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1,143: that’s the number of vehicles that the District of Columbia currently has in its fleet, according to documents obtained by WTOP’s Mark Segraves and Paul Shinkman. Add that to that 215 vehicles that the District government currently has on lease, and the total cost of cars for public officials adds up to well over $50 million, plus $92,712.41 in lease payments every month.

Of course, those figures downplay how expensive Brown’s Navigators were, relatively speaking:

The average cost of a D.C. public vehicle lease costs taxpayers about $430, almost 4.5 times less than Brown’s Lincolns. The cheapest is a 2003 Chevy Venture the Department of Corrections began leasing in July 2007 for $207.43 per month. The most expensive vehicle is the Department of Disability Services’ 2007 Grand Caravan, specially equipped for handicap use, for which the city pays $1,600 per month. Aside from that one vehicle, the next priciest is a 2008 Dodge Caravan, leased for the Office of Aging for $780.00 per month.

There are also city entities getting by with 26-year old pickups (the University of the District of Columbia) and agencies that haven’t gotten a new vehicle since the ’90s (the D.C. Housing Authority). The next highest-priced lease next to Brown’s Navigators? A $1,600 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan which has been equipped for handicapped accessibility by the Department of Disability Services — yes, that’s right, before returning them, the city was paying more every month for Kwame Brown to ride in luxury than it was to transport disabled people around.