The theft continues as money raised by the Open Space tax is diverted to the county budget:
Anyone with doubts as to whether these budget numbers are really made up on the spot with no relevance to reality only need look to that Parks Maintenance item. According to the cheesy memo justifying the thefts:
From the appropriations section of the 2019 executive budget:
Over 15% of the entire Parks and Recreation budget (the exact same dollar amount for the last 4 years) is supposedly being used to maintain mostly empty land.
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