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TexasTowelie

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2. The payments to vendors and to the city of Springfield

Reply to raging moderate (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 8, 2017, 07:55 AM

Feb 2017

for utilities are usually the last bills that get paid. The last time that the budget was discussed the city was getting ready to disconnect the electricity and turn out the lights at the Capitol because they were a few million dollars overdue.

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