This year just got millions of dollars more expensive for Lake County
taxpayers.
The Lake County Council gave its approval Tuesday to borrow $5 million to
repair crumbling rural roads.
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The state's support of local roads has remained frozen for the last nine
years while the cost of paving materials has risen by 128 percent in the same
period, Malczewski said.
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The council gave its third and final approval to borrow another $8 million
to resolve a number of lawsuits against the county, including $6.9 million to
pay former jail inmates and their lawyers to settle a 2-year-old suit alleging
crowded and unsanitary conditions within the jail's holding cells.
The council also transferred $2 million from a recent tax sale into a fund
to cover $1.6 million in year-end salaries and benefits for the 27th pay period
of 2012.
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