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You're going to explain to me

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why the city budget is apparently
like a bunch of locked pickle jars.

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We have some jars on the table here

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that represent different parts
of the city budget.

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Why is this one smaller
and why is it without a lid?

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The city's budget, only 36% of
it comes from the general fund.

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The reason why the general fund is,
without a lid is because

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money can be taken from it
and put into other funds within the city.

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If the city has money
in all these different places,

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why can't we just move it around?

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When we see active construction projects,
we literally couldn't

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take the funds from that
and put it into, say, the library?

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The library, levy that
just passed, recently,

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that is dedicated funding that
the citizens placed on library funding.

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They said, “I'm going to dedicate money
to go towards the library,

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and I do not want it to go anywhere else.”

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The money can go in,

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but as you can see,
it's not going to come out.

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The road funds are going to have
their own, funds devoted to the roads.

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The city budget isn't just one
big pile of coins that we can move

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around from one account to another.