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Councilman Corley gave an extensive, "follow the money" presentation. There has been $8 Million available since May 2016, from two separate bonds, plenty of funding to overhaul a school heating system. The City Council wants to know where the money is going.

The only budget item Schools Budget Director Ferrucci shared any information about was fire code upgrades of about $1 Million. Most of the money went to "other projects" and "engineering and design services." That is, SMMA, a Cambridge, MA design company which seems to be gobbling up taxpayer money which should have been allocated for heating upgrades at Vets a long time ago. Now it seems the Warwick taxpayers are looking at spending $7-8 Million "on a pig" as Dean Johnson put it. Again, where did the $8 Million go?

The heating system at Vets has not been a priority. Upgrading and maintaining our public schools has not been a priority for decades. The City Council has decided that it is time for some old-fashioned accountability before another $4 Million goes out the door. As a Warwick taxpayer, I emphatically agree!

Dan Elliott

Greenwood