Senate employees in Michigan won’t have to worry about finding a cheap parking spot at work, but taxpayers might – they’ll be the ones footing the $200,000 bill.

Senators snuck an amendment into an unrelated land sale bill that would subsidize the monthly rate for their employees at a city-owned parking structure that went up in February, the Detroit Free Press reported. The new law guarantees the lowered rate for the next 50 years.

Senate workers will pay $40 a month to park in the facility, which is located one block from the state Capitol and two blocks from Senate offices. Other state employees will pay $85 a month to use the same garage, while the public will pay $157 a month, according to the Free Press.

The parking facility was built on the location of an older airport parking lot that the state traded land for. Supporters of the bill told the Free Press that the Senate employees are paying the same rate they paid at their old parking lot, and that it was the fault of other government agencies for not negotiating a better rate for their own employees.

Opponents, however, said the new law is a good example of bad government spending.

“This is the kind of stuff that gives politicians a bad name for a small price,” said John Chamberlin, director of the Common Cause of Michigan.