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Government Golf Gobbles Up Lansing City Budget

Submitted by Roanman on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 19:37

 

From Michigan Capital Confidential the news service from the Michigan Libertarian think tank, The Mackinaw Center for Public Policy

 

Government Golf Gobbles Up Lansing City Budget

By TOM GANTERT | Aug. 29, 2011

 

 

At a time when the city of Lansing is laying off police officers and contemplating raising taxes, it is losing about $400,000 a year on city-owned golf facilities. Lansing lost $431,073 in fiscal 2007-08 and another $398,452 in fiscal 2008-09 on its golf facilities, according to Angela Bennett, the city’s deputy finance director. The city also had to cover another $431,073 from golf facility deficits from prior years, Bennett wrote in an email.

The city budgets for 18-hole and 9-hole golf courses and a driving range/learning center. The city covered these expenses by taking money from its general fund and parks millage.

 

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