Claim: "If we don't spend money on a pier, then that money does wipe into the general funds of the city or the county, and if you send it to the county, you never see it again."
Fact-check: St. Petersburg pier money will be lost to the county, Mayor Foster says
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Julie Kliegman
Date published: 2013-08-09T00:00:00