(Michigan City, IN) - Michigan City is longer taking part in reducing lead exposure.

The city under the previous administratoni was in a 2.3 million dollar federal grant program to reduce

lead exposure in  its aging housing stock.

The city’s commitment was more than 400 thousand dollars.

New mayor Duane Parry has inherited a 3.6 million dollar budget shortfall.

He says the shortfall makes it too difficult to fund everything required under the federal grant.

Plus….it’ll mean paying back money into the city’s depleted riverboat fund.

Parry says the city is going ahead with lead abatement…using the city’s community block grant

program.