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While Cushman has done the city a service by raising the alarm, what we need is a plan and less alarm. He and Cote are causing municipal employees to grab retirement asap so they can get locked in at current benefits vs. hanging around while everyone talks of cutting benefits. They create a retirement panic.

Here's a plan. Have a smaller police department. Smaller fire department. (Fire will scream you can't do that but you can.) Have a smaller school department. Keep closing/consolidating schools and don't hire teachers as they retire.

Run the city bare bones. Make everyone do their jobs but cut out any fat. That's the way governments should be run.

Also, no more 75% pensions. If you have one, lucky you. But no more in the future.