And it started to move in the development of cleaning up the streets and most importantly, patrolling the trains, the streets in that red beret. Because we were under fiscal constraint. The Financial Control Board had been set up in 1975 by Governor Kerry with perilous times. We were on the brink of fiscal disholvency and I believe we're moving in that direction now. Felix Roatan of the bankers and Victor Gottbomb, who represented the unions, pooled their resources to keep the city afloat. (44:12–44:19)
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