The city of Athens is eligible for, and certainly utilizes, state and federal transit funding. The university is not eligible for those, so combining with the city has that advantage. It is my theory that if the city uses its transit dollars and ability to get grant money, and the university uses a minor student fee, we should be able to build a more useful system and promote it.

The goal is to have the facility paying for itself as far as operating costs, and it's looking more and more possible,

The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.

I am worried that we are being asked to accept a building that doesn't meet all the conditions yet.

In the wee small hours, the neighborhood got pretty bad last year.

It's less than $50,000 (that) the city is spending.

The specific chore that we're undertaking at the moment is taking the routes of the existing systems and doing an overlay map to see where we're redundant and what's not served and see if we can address that. We want to get routes that are user-friendly and frequency that is practical, and that means from the user standpoint and from the cost standpoint.

Everything that's out in view is period appropriate.

We want to get rid of the (licensed) vendors that buy the spot only for Halloween weekend.

To me, it all comes down to finances.