Here is how some of your tax money was spent in recent city council action.
Everett: $25,000 to the Valley View and Riverside neighborhood associations for improvement projects.
$109,000 in use-it-or-lose-it federal Homeland Security funds for brochures and portable shelters for people and pets. Up to $47,000 of the grant money could be used to pay salaries and benefits.
Up to $397,000 to Cosmopolitan Engineering Group of Tacoma to design a new water discharge and intake system at Lake Chaplain.
Lake Stevens: $5,950 to Snohomish County to provide maintenance on four traffic signals in Lake Stevens.
Monroe: $20,599 to Snohomish County Corrections of Everett for jail billing.
$68 to Verizon Wireless for an Internet card.
Snohomish: $49 to a city employee for mileage from June through August.
$46,656 to the city of Everett for water bills.
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