Low, way low. Those asses were crooks and upper level city managers. Non union public works employees, the ones that are maintaining infrastructure, are taking the fiscal beating the bureaucrats should be taking. I know exactly what Traveler69 is talking about.
Without these dedicated hard working people, you would be in a world of filth and squalor. A city's most valuable asset is it's infrastructure, based on replacement costs. Traveler69 has my thanks.
While I am sure many public service employees are good people, the unions they belong to are not and have been doing a great disservice to this country for decades because of greed and arrogance.
Too bad public service is no longer service oriented rather than money oriented.
A city's most valuable asset is its citizens.