There may not be a solution, but we've got like $200,000 worth of overtime in this budget and it looks to me like there would be some way we could knock some of that out. If we could, it might eliminate having to do away with people, or at least some of them. Maybe there's not a way, but that just looks like a ton of overtime.
Essentially it seems mankind has passed the point of 'environmental sustainability' upon which economic and social sustainability depends.
We're losing so much revenue from General Cable, ... Water and franchise fees are going way down and next year it's going to be worse. The only thing you can do is hope that somebody else moves in here or that the tax base goes up enough. I don't have a solution. I just know it's a tough deal. There's nothing else to cut except employees.
Chief Lawson would like to know without communication, food, water, enough buses and gasoline, how long would it take another American city to reach the limits of its compassion?
They both agreed that was an acceptable compromise.
[The chief's decision to seal the bridge] prompted accusations of racial prejudice, ... But Lawson explains that initially Gretna police commandeered buses and used them to ferry more than 5,000 evacuees to a rescue site. But more and more kept coming, and after a day of this shuttling, he says, his small police force became overwhelmed.
So far nothing's been cancelled, but it's definitely being discussed.
You never know how difficult it is under pressure.
[Burnett then had Fran Finco, director of instruction, contact reconsideration committee members about the compromise.] We've been able to get in touch with seven committee members so far, ... and all have agreed that it's consistent with the original motion.
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