http://statenews.com East Lansing residents will see fewer sidewalk repairs, slower action to fix damaged city property and shorter-staffed city offices during the next year, as the city struggles to cope with an 11 percent cut to its second-largest revenue source. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:22:25 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44987 Great time to build that new parking ramp at City Center II Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:41:58 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44987 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44994 The State’s obligatory revenue sharing funds have been CONSISTENTLY DECLINING for many years. Yet, City Officials fail to Budget accordingly. City officials resort to emergency cuts in services including library cuts and would rather dump money on an unneeded bailout for the private developer of City Center II. The taxpayers will be strapped with $250 Million of debt, a $1.9 Million local budget deficit, and further tax increases to pay for our City Hall’s mistakes. Thank you Mayor Loomis, City Manager Staton, and City Council for recklessly wasting our taxpayer money. At least Strathmore might be able to pay some of his property taxes with your taxpayer funded BAILOUT! Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:43 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/44994 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/45020 I really don’t care. Let the idiotic professors who don’t participate in East Lansing local governance foot the bills. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:22:25 -0400 http://statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/45020