The economy kept plummeting. People didn’t have the spendable dollars they used to have. And as a result, we were having a hard time attracting people to the zoo. They just weren’t gonna spend the money to do that. So, we started looking at other ways of funding the institution. And we went through the gamut of looking at mill levies and bond issues and sales taxes. Mill levy, the county didn’t really want us to get on their mill levy program. That means they would lose some opportunities.
