Members of Student Government Association attended the mayor's commission meeting Thursday to discuss what could be done to bring back the Late Loop trolley, which was cancelled.
SGA vice president Jamie Manuel said the organization met with Mary Gaston, the assistant general manager for Muncie Indiana Transit System and Muncie Mayor Dan Canan to discuss what options were available to bring back the Late Loop.
"The Late Loop trolley was a top priority to discuss because we realize it is something students appreciated and wanted back," Manuel said.
SGA Treasurer Zac Davis said the Late Loop was cancelled because there was not enough funding available to keep the trolley running. MITS would have notified Late Loop riders sooner, but because of a late-arriving payment, the company was unable to do so in time.
"Mary Gaston explained that the check for the Late Loop trolley usually comes on Tuesdays for each weekend, but instead, came on Thursday," he said. "It was just enough to run the trolley for Thursday but it ran on Friday as a courtesy."
The trolley is privately sponsored by merchants, and their funds were exhausted so there was not enough funding to keep the trolley running, Davis said.
At the meeting SGA discussed who had the potential to fund the Late Loop trolley and what they could do to help the funding he said.
"We talked about ways to save money, such as whether the trolley needed to run during holidays," Davis said.
"We have a few options that are going to be discussed on Monday on what we can do to revive the Late Loop," Manuel said.
Although they are not revealing the options until it is known exactly what is going to be done to try to revive the Late Loop, Manuel said it would be a combined effort.
"It will be a combined effort between students, Muncie community merchants and village merchants," Manuel said.
SGA will be sure to update students on the progress of the Late Loop and what is being done Manuel said.
Other topics were discussed at the meeting as well, such as recycling and a smoke-free campus.
The expansion of recycling was put into action and 200 blue bags were distributed to each fraternity house Thursday in an effort to help the growth of recycling on campus and within fraternities.
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