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million in capital surplus funds, including $63,000 for a digital projector at the State Theatre.
• Some councilors agree with this idea and are taking the right approach: We can take care of it without raising taxes to do it. Others want to see what it costs, while at least one says we should take the federal money.
• This country has financial problems, in part, because cities have just taken the money. Little by little, just because someone qualifies, the federal government provides help even if a city such as Sioux Falls can afford to take care of an emergency by itself.
• There are projects, some such as Lewis & Clark Regional Water System, that desperately need federal money to deliver water in the area. All we have to do is look at the tornado in Oklahoma to realize there are weather-related emergencies that are far, far worse than our ice storm.
• Even Minnehaha and Lincoln counties, which also have applied for federal aid for storm damage expenses, may be justified to take the money. They are financially in a different position than the city.
• We, however, just don't need the money in Sioux Falls.
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