Higher priorities for COVID funding

Dear Editor,

I read the story about Pickens County Council giving $500,000 to the YMCA. I did not vote for this, and I want to explain why.

In 2021, the federal government gave the Pickens County government $23.4 million. Departments within the county government made $66 million of requests for that COVID relief money. In the end, the county spent millions on things like blue bins at the recycle centers ($187,000), a countywide radio system for police, fire and EMS ($10.3 million), a shredder for the landfill ($900,000), bonuses for first responders and essential staff who worked through

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