A program intended to feed Baltimore County’s hungry and homeless instead cost taxpayers more than $1 million in idled equipment and an empty building, a report released yesterday by Inspector General Kelly Madigan says.
Of the $1,023,000 minimum spent by the county, less than 48,000 pounds of food was grown for the “Produce for the People” program hosted at the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park, better known as “the Ag Center.”
Most of the spending that Madigan uncovered took place when the late Kevin Kamenetz was county executive and William “Chris” McCollum ran the Ag Center, located in bucolic Hunt Valley.
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