Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Finance comm. hears from city departments

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 3, 2008

Every dollar, every copy and every cell phone holds significance for city funding distributions, as the Board of Aldermen is scrambling to make up a nearly $10-million shortfall between Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s proposed budget and the amount of money likely to end up in the final budget — the result of the mayor’s unjustifiably optimistic assumptions about funding to be provided by the state.

Aldermen on the Finance Committee met Wednesday for the second time this week to hear city department heads and other officials defend and explain their budgeting proposals. The committee is...

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