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Originally Posted by fotze
and now that they are backing off on it, there was room to be sliced.
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Or you're just pushing it back and delaying it and hope whatever you're slicing gets through another year.
Then you have EMS or the CPS or the garbage truck drivers or whoever's now out of the budget equation talking about going on strike.
I don't doubt that there's excess in a city budget..in any city budget. I just think this is partially fueled because people are more sensative now, now that they're houses aren't worth as much as they were two years ago, their portfolio's are in the crapper...they expect the city's budget to mirror that of their own...when as I said, the city has only one time a yer to collect and you lilkey have several city departments sticking out their hands for more (rightly or wrongly) cash, and the city has to play catchup for the first half of this year when the city/economy was still flying somewhat high.