Renard Johnson: “The city cut about $26 million out of our budget before we…”

“One of the things that we did is I instructed the city council, instructed the city to go back and really scrub the budget cut where they could. And The city cut about $26 million out of our budget before we had to come to this point. In addition to that, we've got rid of 75% of our vacant positions, which also save money.” (01:12–01:18)

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