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. In 1994, the RTB will be updating and revising the Five-Year Transit Plan. This plan contains the details for transit service delivery improvements over the next five years. Many of the improvements would enhance suburban services. Much . of the service improvements will not be able to be implemented without dollars appropriated for new services. Communities are encouraged to offer their ideas as the updated Five-Year Transit Plan is developed later this year. In the spring, we will be inviting you to meetings to discuss the plan update and get your ideas and assessment of your transit services prior to a draft plan being developed. Attached for your information is a summary report on the RTB's 1994 legislative initiatives. You may wish to keep this information available at your city offices to use for further reference. If you desire more detailed information on how we evaluated our funding needs, please call me and I can provide it for you. In late December, the Governor app0inted a new RTB Chair. Sally Evert, of Stillwater, was named to the post. She has served for several years as a Washington County Commissioner and as Chair of the Transportation Advisory Board of the Metropolitan Council. Her public officials' background makes her very knowledgeable to the benefits for local governmental units to cooperatively work toward solutions to our regional transportation needs and is personally very committed to working toward meeting the transportation needs of our region. To attain our transit objectives will require additional funding and support from the legislature. I urge you to discuss transit needs as they impact your community with your city councils and county b.oards. In doing so, please encourage your elected officials to contact the state legislators from your community to bring them up to date on your community's transit needs and to impress upon them the need for additional monies to put future transit service into reality. Transit will never be able to make significant . improvements to its service without your assistance in communicating the importance of transit to our state officials. , Finally, again this year, I hope to be able to visit with you and further discuss specific transit issues in your community. If any of you wish to schedule such a meeting over the next few months, please call me at 292-8789. Otherwise, I will be contacting you to schedule some time to meet with you in the near future. Please do not hesitate to use me as your transit contact whenever issues pertaining to transit arise. .