Lately, the council has been referring to the 2 million dollars budgeted this fiscal year for the renovation of the Public Works Department as a "placeholder" amount. They speak of it as if everybody knew that would not be the real figure, it would likely be much higher, of course.
Your Gilbert, for one, did not know. We thought since that was the figure written down in the city budget, and since the council struggled long and hard to trim the budget and the tax rate down, and since some questioned whether the city should take on a $2 million renovation in a severe recession, that the figures labeled "budget" in a document labeled "budget," were actually a budget.
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