By Ann Pierret
Flint - The Capitol Theatre, (click here) Ferris Wheel Building and Mott Community College Culinary Arts Teaching Facility were all funded by taxpayer money intended to help Flint recover from the water crisis.
At least that’s what the Flint Emergency Appropriations and Expenditures spreadsheet says. This is the report ABC12 first reported about in January.
"I’m gonna just smile because stuff like that like that makes me angry," one resident said.
Adding up the numbers -- $46,382,475 was spent on economic development in the city of Flint beginning in 2016, when the water crisis was declared an emergency.
The money was dished out to both the Michigan Strategic Fund and Michigan Economic Development Corp. and then they passed it on.
Going line by line …
The Michigan Strategic Fund gave $5.5 million to the Capitol Theatre Project. The reason listed: "support for Capitol Theatre renovation" and "creation of 82 jobs."
The report also shows the MSF gave $3 million to iSource Worldwide and SkyPoint Ventures for the "creation of 100 jobs," along with $5.7 million to C3 Venture Flint, LLC for the "creation of 380 jobs."...
...Once again, the he claimed former Gov. Rick Snyder's administration used their Flint Water Expenditures website to dupe people into thinking more was being done for Flint's recovery than Ananich said the former governor actually did.
"This is the point I made early on and throughout the time of Governor Snyder's term -- this is a public health crisis, not a PR crisis for his reputation. And that document I think, further shows it was all about PR for them," Ananich said....
