Closing thought before you go on the budget that you want everyone to take away from this. I want everyone to know that we are scrubbing city hall for savings. But The city's had a financial shortfall for as long as I can remember, and I've been in government since 73. So we looked around, we looked at studies of other cities. We took a recommendation and a study by the comptroller's office last October. (30:58–31:08)
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