I think there are reductions of services in this budget. We do not have $100,000 (to add) math tutors, or $40,000 (to preserve) the high school English teacher.

This year we have not done a thorough enough job going through the budget to look for reductions. A 7 percent increase is too much for the increasingly stressed taxpayers in this town to handle. With less money, I believe that we would still be able to sustain the high quality schools that we have.

We'd have four point guards then. The math doesn't add up.

They had virtually an unlimited budget, an open check book. We're not going to have that.

This is not part of their budget.

I think the FEMA budget should be dramatically increased. And I say that as a conservative who's not reflexively for more government spending. The department has always tried to do homeland security on the cheap.