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@JohnBarry: that figure is a red herring by the Mayor and he threw it out there to to try to point the blame on the schools and distract others from focusing on reviewing his twelve plus years as mayor where his policies have done next to nothing to halt this spending trend.

In fact if we perform the same analysis on the city side of the budget, ($99.6 million of local tax dollars to fund the city overall budget at $126.3)

----- 78% of the city budget is funded by local tax.

That's 3% greater than the 75% of local tax dollars allocated to fund to the school budget sighted by the Mayor.

The bottom line is that Mayor Avedisian and his administration still refuse to admit that his pension reform policy and healthcare policies have failed to halt the yearly increases that have pushed city spending to record highs, along with the new local taxes allocated to support legacy costs for retired workers.

And that spending will continue into the future along with the new tax dollars needed to pay for these legacy expenses.

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