Government Golf Gobbles Up Lansing City Budget
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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