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Originally Posted by Mazrim
The city has over 10,000 employees. I doubt one person's experience encapulates the entire organization.
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That's fair. But there are plenty of folks in this thread saying there's nothing we could cut.
And there isn't a line item in the budget labeled "waste", so identifying things that didn't need to be done would be work. But there are absolutely things the city spends money on that it doesn't need to.
The street I live on got graded today. It's already mostly down to bare pavement from the weather, so this accomplished absolutely nothing. It would have been better to pay that employee his/her full wage and not pay for fuel/maintenance on a huge vehicle.
But there's a post-snowfall schedule so we follow that, instead of critically thinking that it's 10 degrees maybe we don't need to scrape bare roads.