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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
From my anecdotal observations, individual departments don't ever not spend any money in their budgets if they have surpluses for fear that if they save the money, come next year, they get their budgets reduced. So you have departments that spend needlessly so they can hit their annual budget amounts allocated to them.
The city has to just just take a harder stance and start cutting some of these, and tell departments tough, you're going to have to do more with less. That's how private sector companies work. Why would the city operate any differently?
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Since the city has gone to zero-base budgeting, I don't believe this happens as often