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Crickee, thanks. Our population has absolutely declined while state aid has increased, though next year I believe they're looking at an approximate $800K reduction. But also, back in 2009-2010, the city cut it's maintainence of effort by the full 5% allowed by the state at that time which was approximately $5-$6 million and up to this current year, only restored $800K to that. (We were the only city to do the full 5% and every other one that reduced, restored it all shortly thereafter.) Also, in that same time frame, it has closed buildings and reduced staff. One bone of contention for me though, is to compare Cranston's population increase over the same period and it's increase in state aid. Currently, Cranston receives nearly $20 million more than Warwick and you won;t see any rational ratio of theeir increases.

David Testa