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Bill Jaques: Nice to see all that surplus money laying around

Re “Modesto weighs giving nonprofit $900,000” (Page 1A, March 14): I was pleased to see that we have found a surplus of $762,000 to help fund the $900,000 that we need to send to Modesto Neighborhoods, Inc. I’m sure we’ll be able to soon find a few more surplus dollars to fund police officers, fix a pothole or two and maybe even do another bike lane. We sure are fortunate to live in a city with such findable surpluses.

Bill Jaques, Modesto

This story was originally published March 17, 2016 at 12:56 PM with the headline "Bill Jaques: Nice to see all that surplus money laying around."

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