By Seth Slabaugh, Star Press
seths@muncie.gannett.com
MUNCIE -- A State Board of Accounts audit report questions the Delaware County Redevelopment Commission's expenditure of $900,000 of property tax dollars on a 120-foot-tall wind turbine and 50 street lights to be powered by a combination of wind and sun.
The new lights and the wind turbine at the Park One/332 industrial park at Interstate 69 and Ind. 332 will help brand Delaware County as a clean energy community, officials said when they approved the project in June.
But tax protesters criticized how the improvements were financed, describing it as "loosey goosey," "Enron-style" financing to evade state law.
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