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Justanidiot, Solomon is just trying to save face here: The city is facing a costly lawsuit if he does nothing, so he's trying to sound strong by telling the school department what it can do with its budget -- "We're paying $1.75 million of your debt, now you can reinstate sports and buses, and you should think about cutting administrators."

He doesn't have the legal right to do that, but he's getting around it by paying the debt instead of just adding $1.75 million to the school contribution.

And his statement that the city is paying 40 percent of what the school department requested is not going to help him. He's basically admitting that the city isn't paying the other 60%.

So, I'm not sure they've thought this cunning plan all the way through.