The Herald-Sun is reporting on a vote scheduled for today by the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund. If approved, the project under consideration would provide $679,000 in state funds for 100+acres of land in eastern Durham County. The goal, according to the story, is to keep the land near Falls Lake as a park area.
Then there’s this jarring piece of information (emphasis is mine):
The story notes that the Fund’s executive director, Richard Rogers, laments that there are “$13 million worth of projects and $3 million to spend on those.”
With the state facing a nearly $4 billion gap between what it expects to collect in revenue and what it wants to spend, reasonable people should be able to agree the Fund’s expenditures should be stopped immediately. This type of spending is a “want” and not a “need.”
