Now that beggars are choosers, local governments get to spend lots of money on things like ce-ment ponds. The Town of Candler has contracted with the architectural firm Clark Patterson Lee because it called for a plan that depended upon garnering $14.3 million in grant money. Now that inputs are outputs, that is considered a plus.* “Lengthy” public input will soon be solicited.
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*Can you imagine falling short on rent this month and instead of tearfully begging an extension, you get the landlord to gush all over you when you present a plan for getting money from this, that, and the other guy? “It will bring dollars with multipliers into our community!”
