That is one sloppily formatted table in the freep article. They break it up onto two separate pages and tuck the Grand Total alphabetically between Gibralter and Grosse Isle Twp. WTF?

And what's with the smallest amounts? River Rouge diverted $66.09 in 2009? Why would anyone bother to divert such small amounts? That doesn't seem worth the overhead of tracking it.

"But whose responsibility was it to educate the voters?" Lamarand said.
Oh, I see. The voters should have expected that the zoo tax they voted for would be diverted to non-zoo expenses. LOL! Silly voters don't understand that DDAs fit the definition of a zoo.

"A lot of us are actually probably going to court," Romulus Mayor Alan Lambert said. "It's not that we're greedy. It's just that these communities really need this money."

"Look at all this revenue we've lost from taxable values going down," he said....

"Now they want to take even more from us?" he asked.
Wait. Wait. Now who exactly is doing the taking here? Feel "entitled" much? LOL!

I'm not really that passionate about this issue but it's getting really annoying how the will of the electorate is increasingly ignored in this country. [[Thinking of medical marijuana, etc.) That's what really sucks.