NEW YORK - The privately-run Citi Bike program might be getting public money to expand if some City Council members get their way.

Transportation Committee Chairman Ydanis Rodriguez wants to earmark part of the budget for fiscal year 2018 to bring the bike sharing program to the Bronx and Staten Island.

The money would also help expand Citi Bike farther north in Manhattan and deeper into Brooklyn and Queens. 

Rodriguez says he wants the program available in every community board by 2020.

Citi Bike is the only bike share program in the country that does not receive any tax dollars.

The head of the company that runs Citi Bike, Jay Walder, says a major expansion cannot happen without some public subsidy.