Steve DeBrum wants to see Manteca get out of the financial woods when it comes to the stressed municipal general fund. That’s why in 2010 the councilman questioned the wisdom of Manteca accepting $3.7 million in federal stimulus funds to pay for what was touted as the ”biggest stand-alone landscaping project undertaking along freeways” in California. The money paid for the planting of 7,100 trees, 3,900 shrubs and other landscaping improvements along the 120 Bypass and Highway 99 through Manteca.