Here's another option for them:

PLUSPLUS

Now they can charge their devices while eating lunch.

Feds had $3.3B furniture splurge during COVID, bought solar-powered picnic tables, leather recliners

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent $237,960 on roughly 30 solar-powered picnic tables while the vast majority of its workforce stayed home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The State Department paid more than $117,250 for as many as 40 luxurious Ethan Allen leather recliners to fill its embassy building in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The taxpayer watchdog OpenTheBooks.com revealed the furniture splurge in a study published Tuesday, which also cited a Government Accountability Office report that found 17 of the 24 federal agencies are using as little as 9% and as much as 49% of their building capacities well into the fourth year of the pandemic.

In one particularly “egregious example,” the group said the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation spent nearly $15 million on new furniture — or $14,400 for each of its 1,000 employees.

The Environmental Protection Agency also shelled out $6.5 million for trendy furniture even as it downsized to move into a 300,000-square-foot office space at Four Penn Central in Philadelphia.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/03/federal-agencies-spent-3-3-billion-on-new-furniture-while-employees-worked-from-home-during-covid-pandemic/

I don't love it, but stadiums are often at least partially paid by the government. The argument is economic development. Build a stadium in a city and it will bring in some amount of money. As for how much, I don't really know, but one huge thing this report misses is how much money this spending generated in return. Cut this spending and you shrink the economy, lower tax revenue and lower employment. The question is just: how much?

Oklahoma spends more taxpayer dollars than that on the salaries of the head football coaches of the statte’s flagship universities. Socialist football in one of the reddest states in the country. 

Isn't Football pretty big in Oklahoma.

Then it starts a fire, burns down the nearest buildings, causing 100's of millions in damage. Now everyone's wondering why we didn't go for a higher quality option. 

In Oklahoma, worshipping football is right up there just behind worshipping their Messiah... and I don't mean Jesus. 

Not saying that you could get cheaper options for 30 tables with options to charge your devices but not sure if it should be USA's standard to just use the cheapest options possible. You aren't North Korea 😄 and please buy at least something to protect the wood from rotting

Put the picnic table far enough from the building, say 50 ft, so that if it does catch on fire, it won't spread to the building. Attach a fire extinguisher to the table.

Here's another option if you don't wanna run an extension cord to each table.

Put one of these at every table. Bring them inside at night to recharge.