Residents question courthouse spending and city award practices
Multiple residents criticized the city for marketing awards that may obscure priorities and questioned why a proposed new courthouse—cited as a hot topic in forums—was not reflected in a recent electronic budget survey.
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Joan Charles urged the council to disclose the entry forms and determine whether staff used awards as a marketing ploy that might mislead residents about priorities: "The city has been flooding us with awards... giving the impression that we live in a utopia?" she asked. Charles also raised concern that the $30 million courthouse issue, which drew the most questions in candidate forums, did not appear in the city's push-button budget survey.
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