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Mayor Solomon and the council continue to treat taxpayers as if we can't see through their very obvious attempts to fool us.

I remember his statements at the "state of the city" speech where he said that Avedisian's estimate of a $23+ million surplus was wrong because the city has since spent about $10 million of it -- while ignoring that it was the budgets that he and the city council approved that cut the surplus by that much.

And now we're supposed to celebrate that they're taking "only" $2.4 million from whatever is left of the surplus -- and ignore the $5 million per year they already took from it -- because it's better than the $3 million that Avedisian's budgets included?

And we're supposed to admire the way they put money in the paving budget and removed it -- again -- instead of actually paving roads?

And we're supposed to accept that they're giving the schools zero additional city money while claiming the opposite? (Remember, the half-million "increase" is state money, the old bond payment is supposed to be paid by the city and not the schools, and using new bond money to fix the schools does not count toward the operating budget.)

These guys are in complete control of the city. and all they do is keep trying to fool us instead of addressing the financial problems they created.