City’s Politicians Strive To Beat The Clock Spending Federal Money [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

City’s Politicians Strive To Beat The Clock Spending Federal Money [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: 
"City council members scrambling at the last minute to think up a project so they can beat a deadline for spending $260,000 in federal money may not be the best example of good stewardship of tax dollars.

But that’s what happened in one Michigan city when elected officials considered spending that $260,000 to build a new home on vacant property, even though a house just two blocks away was sold for about $11,000 last year.
After the council rejected the proposal by a 4-3 vote, it scheduled a special meeting and approved spending most of the federal money instead on a lighting project for a park in a historically high crime area..."
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And this in Muskegon: https://muskegonpundit.blogspot.com/2016/12/when-morons-have-control-of-your-free.html