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I've heard Bob Cushman on Dan Yorke's program, and read many of Rob Cote's comments on this website, and it appears that they thought everything would change after Avedisian left -- meaning the same city councilors who allowed the current financial situation to happen would suddenly agree with them.

Clearly, going by Solomon's proposed budget and the council's reaction to it so far, that's not the case.

Except for blaming Avedisian, the current mayor and city council have done nothing to actually address the problems them had a hand in creating -- and very likely created another mess with the poorly-conceived idea of using pension contributions to balance the current school budget: https://warwickpost.com/school-pension-withdrawal-jeopardizes-funds-tax-exempt-status/

We're one month from the end of FY19 and the school budget is still $4 million in the hole. The mayor and council have not done anything approaching a responsible plan (which Messrs. Cote and Cushman have been advocating) to address that issue.

As the article explains, the city council went to mediation and accepted the opinion of Vincent Ragosta that the pension contributions could legally be withdrawn -- apparently without having a city attorney review the proposal before they signed it.

Again, Solomon, Merolla, and the rest failed to do their own due diligence about a critical financial matter in the city -- and again, they're trying to blame other people instead of accepting the blame for seeking a politically easy solution over doing their homework.

While I respect Cote and Cushman for their efforts, it looks like their faith in the current administration and city council is completely misplaced.