There are millions of dollars that's gone into this one particular community in extraordinary funding, supplementary appropriations, special warrants. Everybody can say it's an emergency, but in every community we talk about fairness, and that we have a capital planning process in place, and that you have to follow the allocation of how the funding is going to be given. Yet, in this case, there is always rerouting or new processes invented of finding ways of getting money into this particular community. I know it's an election year, but I think that it's pretty blatant that this is being abused. Realistically, knowing there are other funding sources out there, why was this money brought forward this way knowing they could have had access to other processes. There's an extraordinary funding pot in MACA for that type of purpose. Why didn't they apply through that process? There is a pot of money in MACA for that. Why didn't they go through that route?
David Krutko on Bill 11: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2002-2003
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Bill 11: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2002-2003
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 12th, 2003
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