My state (Kansas) has spent 14 years running up a tab equal to that amount ($300 million) renovating the capitol building. Its been a long protracted process with accusations of waste and cost over-runs triple the initial cost estimate.
But at least we got real, hard, walk up and touch them, improvements.
I guess $300 million might as well get tossed into the furnace in Oregon. That is a staggering amount of money to waste. I’m sure lots of people lost their jobs.
Here in MN, the morons got bonuses for failure.