From The Dispatch:
Columbus spending plan full of grim news
By Robert VitaleCity Council members approved a 2009 capital-spending plan last night that includes no new city-funded road work, equipment purchases, park improvements or building projects.
The capital budget totals $457 million, but about 90 percent of that money will go toward water, sewer and electric-utility projects to be repaid with money collected from ratepayers. About $24 million is for other projects already under way or purchases already made.