And they agreed, this is how we’re gonna fund the zoo, and we’re gonna make it a millage agency. We’re gonna assess local property taxes to fund the zoo’s operating budget. And as I tell people, this was now three years after I’d been director. So for three years I lived with this deficit. And I mean, our business manager, George Davis, and I literally would sit down every month and decide what bills to pay. And as I tell people, when the clock struck midnight on June 30th, 1980, we went from having a deficit that we had lived with for six years to having a surplus. And that was the true beginning of Riverbanks Zoo. Now, staff was happy that you’re the director now.
