A bill to make Bike Share a Missouri Students Association auxiliary failed in a vote by the MSA Senate on Wednesday.

37 senators, 58.73 percent of the total, voted against the bill, while 20 senators, 31.75 percent, voted in favor of the bill. There was one abstention and five no votes or absents.

Secretary of Auxiliaries Lauren Damico spoke against the bill.

“I’m not saying the program doesn’t need more stability, it’s just not at a point for it to become an auxiliary,” Damico said to the Senate.

Damico said lack of funding could have been an issue if Bike Share had become an auxiliary. Many auxiliaries, such as MUTV, pay their coordinator, but MSA does not have the funding to pay for a Bike Share director currently.

Damico added that many students are still unaware of the service, citing MSA’s Fall Student Opinion Poll in which 10 percent of students said they knew of Bike Share.

The program will stay under MSA’s Department of Student Services, Damico said.

Tyler Ricketts, one of Bike Share’s founders, wrote the legislation for Bike Share to become an auxiliary.

In a speech to the full Senate, Ricketts said making Bike Share an auxiliary would help the stability, accountability and credibility of the program.

Bike Share is currently under DSS. If the bill had passed, Bike Share would have become an auxiliary, allowing more stable funding and stable leadership.

By securing funding as an auxiliary, Bike Share would have ensured bike maintenance reparation in the future, [according to a previous Maneater article](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2012/11/30/bike-share-may-become-msa-auxiliary/).

Having a director devoted to Bike Share would have been beneficial to the program because this person would have more time and knowledge to maintain it, Ricketts said.

After the bill’s failure, Damico said there are plans to create a small committee to manage the program.

“(The committee) would oversee the program’s growth,” she said. “It doesn’t need a full-blown staff.”