City Holds Town Hall Meeting on Budget
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City officials hold a town hall meeting on the 2016 budget at Malcolm X College.
The mayor and top city officials are speaking to the public at this hour in the first of a series of town hall meetings on the city budget. That budget could be as much as $754 million dollars out of whack thanks to escalating pension costs. Higher taxes and fees are almost certainly inevitable, the question is which? How are residents responding to the shortfall? Paris Schultz joins us live from
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City Holds Town Hall Meeting on Budget
Clip: 8/30/2015 | 5m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
The mayor and top city officials are speaking to the public at this hour in the first of a series of town hall meetings on the city budget. That budget could be as much as $754 million dollars out of whack thanks to escalating pension costs. Higher taxes and fees are almost certainly inevitable, the question is which? How are residents responding to the shortfall? Paris Schultz joins us live from
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