It is a sense that you need money in order to get money from the provincial government for disability transportation.
Selwyn Hicks and Joe Pickering of the Bruce Grey Huron Disability Transportation Corporation visited Arran-Elderslie and South Bruce Councils yesterday.
They are going over to the five member municipalities to collect 50 thousand dollars in order to use the some of the 500 thousand dollars they received in gas tax funding for operational purposes.
Hicks, Chair of the Corporation, says the money they got from the government is to be used only for capital purposes.
Hicks says there is a complex provincial formula where you can use some of the funds for operating expenses if the member municipalities contribute to the service.
He says the distribution would be proportional as Hanover would contribute 18 thousand dollars while Arran-Elderslie would pay 47 hundred.
Hicks wonders why the province developed such a formula that lets a half a million dollars sit in a fund waiting to be used to operate a service that is very valuable to the community.
He says until something changes they will have to play by the rules.
The service — based out of Walkerton — has been in operation for 32 years and makes 23 thousand client trips each year.
Brockton and West Grey are the other two municipalities in the group of five using the service.
