The Plymouth City Council still isn’t ready to approve the city’s annual transportation agreement with the Marshall County Council on Aging. The group provides public transportation services in Plymouth, in exchange for $8,000 a year in city funding.
Clerk-Treasurer Jeanine Xaver says council members first tabled the agreement in December, after concerns were raised about a potential cost increase. “The mayor had commented that they had asked for an additional dollar amount,” she explains, “and then I reminded them that they already pay an additional $5,000 towards upkeep of that building because it’s a city-owned building at 1305 West Harrison Street.”
Xaver says council members brought the agreement up again during last week’s meeting, only to table it a second time. She says she’d asked to combine those two payments under a single agreement. But one of the council members worried that might jeopardize any state or federal transportation grants the Marshall County Council on Aging may be getting. Council members decided to wait to approve the agreement, until city officials have a chance to ask Council on Aging representatives if it would affect their funding.
