Goodness

... and so we have to make that up.

And each year we're at the mercy of the legislature to make sure we have funding that allows us to continue to provide service.

Now, there's an understanding there's a growing need for transportation, but that don't necessarily follow the track of we ought to put money there because what happens is this.

At the MTA in Flint, we may be willing to do many things.

That don't mean others will do them.

And so you have legislators say, "Well, in my backyard, they're not providing that service.

Wow, every day.

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...

when we did it, when we did it.

But when we started growing the service, especially on the Your Ride side, uh, it wasn't long and the disabled community, one of our board members who's now deceased, but a great individual, was Mike Zelly, and he said, "You know, we need more of this." And so, uh, I recall when we went to the board and said we'd ask for an increase to kind of pump that up a little so that we could address the growing needs and, um, the popularity of that service.

And so when the board was, uh, considering it, I recall they even increased the amount we were gonna ask for because they realized how important it was.

So, you know, fast-forward from then, since 1996, this community continues to support millages that generally run out after five years.

And, uh, since our original millage, uh, effort, we did have a couple of increases, so we ended up where we had three millages, our original one and two small ones.

[whispering]