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"The Jackson City Council received the results of an audit Tuesday that was requested to determine how taxpayer money was spent on a project that will eventually move about 300 city employees into Metrocenter Mall.City Council President Tony Yarber said the report shows the \"$50,000 allocated was properly expended on this project.\"The certificate of occupancy was completed Monday, which means all the utilities have been checked and approved at the old Belk building, which was renovated by Retro Metro.\"We're going to start moving this week. I can't give you a definite time on when that move will be completed. I think it's going to be a couple of weeks -- it could be less, it could be more,\" said Mayor Harvey Johnson. \"We are talking about moving furniture, moving people, talking about transitioning from one work place to another work place.\"The city plans to move the Parks and Recreation Department, the Department of Human and Cultural Services and the Water and Sewer Business Office from the Jackson Medical Mall to the space at Belk\u2019s.Also moving to Metrocenter from the old Atmos building are the Public Education and Government TV studio, personnel offices and police Precinct 2.Business owners in and around Metrocenter Mall are banking on the move. El Mezquite owner Louis Ortez said it took $150,000 to get the restaurant up and running on the Metrocenter lot.\"I think (the city employee move) is good for everybody. Good for the restaurant, too,\" Ortez said.Metrocenter Mall has lost countless stores, including Sears, which was the last anchor store from the mall's 1978 opening.\"It's a spark plug for the community,\" said Leroy Walker, of Retro Metro. \"It's something that needed to happen a long time ago. This is going to be the jump-start for our community here in west Jackson.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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