Cherelle Parker: “It's the executive branch's responsibility to sound the alarm in the city that we have to be prepared for this…”

“When you are the chief executive, it is your job to proffer a budget. City council, we, at that time, as a member, yes, we would do the appropriation, but I think it is It's the executive branch's responsibility to sound the alarm in the city that we have to be prepared for this moment. And I remember people talking about, well, other milestone years. We built a bridge or the Please Touch Museum. But it was all of these lofty, grandiose things.” (35:28–35:46)

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