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FERRIES “If next year we want to go to full time service with four boats, that’s really the challenge, getting the boats. They basically have to be manufactured. Its not like there are a ton of these vessels manufactured just sitting waiting for someone to purchase them. And so that would be something that requires longer term planning. And we have worked with Hillsborough County to do something long term. And I am certainly hoping that we can move in that direction. And I think it is going to continue to take a multi-jurisdictional effort for that to happen.” – St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman

Local Backing Eases, ROI Improves million,” Kriseman added. “What we have learned from

For the test period, two years ago, each of the four gov- the data is that the numbers spent in our two communi- ernmental entities – the cities of Tampa and St. Pete and ties totaled about $1.6 million. So there was more of an the Hillsborough and Pinellas County commissions – each economic bene