The Big Winners
by D.A. Barber
· $24 million for scholarships for 1,200 students
· $14 million to build and operate a community college, with an additional $71 million budgeted over a five-year period
· $8.2 million for seven Early Childhood Head Start facilities
· 66 percent of the nation's police budget, including 74 officers, 30 rangers, 109 support staffers, 40 vehicles and four substations
· $2.1 million fire budget, which includes 32 firefighters, five support staffers, 16 vehicles and four substations
· $11.2 million for a westside clinic in the Gu Achi district
· $14 million for a 60-bed nursing home
· $2.5 million for a kidney dialysis center
· $30 million for 11 youth recreation centers
· $15 million in health care services
· $15 million for business grants to more than 150 grant recipients
· $10.5 million for proposed economic development in 2001
· $1.5 million to build and operate a radio station
· $52 million to build the recently opened third casino
· $15.2 million to build a cultural museum to house ancestral Hohokam artifacts
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