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Lily Limon: “We can't touch fire, we can't touch personnel, we can't, we…”

Featuring: Lily Limon, El Paso City Council, District 7 | Texas

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City Rep. Limon talks data center, budget

Published | Video Starts at 08:17

I just think that this is a year that we really should be buckling down, being real tight and conservative and it's those outside expenses. We can't touch fire, we can't touch personnel, we can't, we can't touch those kinds of wages. But we certainly need to start thinking about other areas and how can we bring good, quality, reliable industries to this community and stop doing the corporate welfare that we've been doing for so many years. (08:17–08:23)

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