Supply chain costs drive Harlingens Tony Butler Golf Course project to 47 million

Apr. 4 — HARLINGEN — After more than a year of setbacks, the long-planned project to transform the Tony Butler Golf Course will cost about $2 million more to finance. Now, the materials’ costs jump caused by the supply chain crisis of the coronavirus pandemic is pushing city officials to tap the Harlingen Community Improvement Board’s $2 million budget to stack onto a $2.6 million nest egg set aside to fund the project aimed at renovating the city’s iconic 94-year-old 18-hole golf course. During a meeting, members of the board, funded through a one-eighth-cent sales tax earmarked to finance quality…