You'll see if you look at these last two slides, we were worried about this when we arrived. So Instead of the 83% increase, We first started by slowing that growth to 4.5% in our first budget. And then last year, for the first time in more than 15 years, we actually cut government. We actually reduced the number of employees citywide and we reduced our spending path aggressively so that we're actually negative growth for the first time. (09:04–09:09)
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