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When
I
last
spoke
to
council
in
May
about
the
city's
finances,
I
said
if
we
want
to
solve
the
real
problems
in
this
city,
it
is
up
to
us
and
us
alone.
With
your
help,
my
administration
has
already
started
implementing
those
solutions.
The
new
operating
and
capital
budget
plans
I
am
presenting
today
will
help
us
further
transform
Pittsburgh
into
a
model
of
change,
one
that
stands
as
a
beacon
for
other
cities
seeking
to
emerge
from
decades
of
decline
in
one
that
will
make
Pittsburgh
a
model
of
a
21st
century
city.
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This
budget
brings
honesty,
transparency
in
the
best
practices
to
the
city's
finances.
It
reduces
the
city's
debt
burden,
increases
payments
to
pension
funds,
maintains
the
city's
fund
balance
and
makes
critical
investment
in
our
long-ignored
infrastructure.
I
also
said
in
made
that
we
needed
to
protect
the
assets
that
make
Pittsburgh
unique
under
director
Sam
Ashbaugh.
Our
new
office
of
management
and
budget
has
completely
redesigned
the
city's
capital
budget
to
follow
national
best
practices.
Now
any
pittsburgher
for
the
first
time
ever
can
see
exactly
how
their
money
is
being
spent.
A
Reading
our
budget
is
no
longer
like
reading
Sanskrit,
each
spending
project
includes
justifications
in
operating
budget
impacts,
and
it
has
an
unprecedented
level
of
detail
for
projects
down
to
the
exact
streets,
sidewalks
and
even
steps.
This
administration
continues
to
do
more
with
less
early.
This
year,
free
government
parking
passes
were
slashed
by
ninety
percent.
In
take-home
vehicles
were
slashed.
A
Thirty
percent.
Our
workforce
has
been
cut
by
sixty
eight
positions
since
this
time
last
year
in
our
tremendous
city,
workers
are
doing
their
part
to
further
shoulder
the
city's
financial
burden
by
taking
on
a
pay
freeze
next
year.
In
addition,
non-personnel
spending
is
being
cut
in
all
departments
and
we're
doing
this
while
negotiating
contracts
with
seven
of
our
workforces.
Nine
unions
representing
police,
firefighters,
paramedics,
white-collar
workers
form
and
school
crossing
guards
and
recreation
center
workers.
A
We
will
continue
to
invest
in
our
most
important
asset,
our
workers,
but
we
will
balance
it
with
this
cold
issah
plen.
Overall,
the
budget
combines
the
balanced
approach
to
solving
our
financial
problems.
It
modernizes
government
preserves
essential
services
in
cut
spending
while
making
tough
revenue
choices,
including
a
revised
millage
rate
and
changes
to
parking
meter
enforcement.
It
allocates
12
million
dollars
to
paving
our
streets
the
most
we
have
budgeted
in
a
decade
and
it
puts
more
police
on
our
streets
than
we
have
seen
in
12
years.