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    City’s Capital Investment Budget Turns Minimal

    From The Dispatch:

    Columbus spending plan full of grim news
    By Robert Vitale

    City 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.

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    Walker Evans is the co-founder of Columbus Underground, along with his wife and business partner Anne Evans. Walker has turned local media into a full time career over the past decade and serves on multiple boards and committees throughout the community.
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