Government Golf Gobbles Up Lansing City Budget [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
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.
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