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Malik Evans: “This year I did not bring a tax levy increase to city…”

Featuring: Malik Evans, Democratic | Mayor of Rochester, New York

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Rochester Mayor Malik Evans and City Council leaders on the city budget

Published | Video Starts at 24:06

You can't, you cannot, you cannot raise the tax levy. You can't keep it the same forever. Right. But you do have to look at macroeconomic factors that are happening. So This year I did not bring a tax levy increase to city council. simply because I continue to look at the rate of inflation. And then I continue to look at if we were still able to perform the services that, that we could without raising the levy. (24:06–24:10)

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Asserts that there was no tax levy increase proposed to the city council this year.

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