I guess I'm wondering why we're not hearing about cuts in finance, inspections, the Civil Rights Department (a totally duplicative function that the state currently has),ITS and a shift in CDBG from small grant programs to funding certain public service functions in targeted neighborhoods (trust me this can be done and has been done in the past).

Why is it the cuts are mostly in fire, police and public works (which has been cut so much in the last eight years they squeak).


Is this a political ploy since they think this will make citizens complain to the state or is it just the easiest cuts to make. Also how come this administration (which bills itself as throwing the doors open at City Hall" hasn't had any public hearings on what the citizens would like to see cut. The School Board has done an excellent job of surveying their constitutents, on just this point, in their last two budget cuts.


Lisa McDonald
East Harriet






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Subject: [Mpls] Cutting size of the City Council
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:07:38 EST

I'll just on this band wagon in a minute.  As I look at how the City is
proposing to meet the challenges of the cuts in LGA all I can see is "same
old, same old."  Threaten to cut police, fire, and maybe even remove stop


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