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Mike Thompson
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Journalist, Saginaw Daily
Saginaw
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By Mike Thompson| Saginaw Daily@ Unlike the City Council, Saginaw's Board of Education has encountered no debate on how to spend a record-setting windfall of federal money. That's because the lion's share of the one-time special school aid is covering cost overruns for a 6-mill, $100 million buildings bond that voters approved in November 2000 for the new Saginaw United High and three other projects. Inflation and supply chain troubles have pushed the price tag into the $140 million range.
By Mike Thompson| Saginaw Daily@ "Portal" has become part of the City Hall lingo, along with "capital" and "programming," for how the final shares of the $52 million ARPA federal block grant will be doled out. When the City Council called for citizen participation during 2022, the place to submit funding proposals was named the portal. And so, two summers later, viewers on July 8 may have felt like they had been misdirected to a municipal session in Portland. A sum in the range of $5 million remains.
By Mike Thompson| Saginaw Daily@ Unlike the City Council, Saginaw's Board of Education has encountered no debate on how to spend a record-setting windfall of federal money. That's because the lion's share of the one-time special school aid is covering cost overruns for a 6-mill, $100 million buildings bond that voters approved in November 2000 for the new Saginaw United High and three other projects. Inflation and supply chain troubles have pushed the price tag into the $140 million range.
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Saginaw Daily
Saginaw, United States