Suburban users as well as city users must share in the cost of the plan, so they also must share in the savings of the plan.

When they live and work in that city, it?s important that they are also part of that community.

The city cannot afford to continue financing for the zoo.

It is a cost that the city of Detroit taxpayers would have to pay.

That is a real possibility, a very strong, real and significant possibility. We cannot continue the operations of the zoo.

We’re looking at it and there are lots of factors you have to consider.

We have expressed interest in receiving the bidding papers from the Democratic Party. But we have not made any decisions about either convention.

It would have been a relief to the general fund that the city needs. It just made sense.