Ha! Just went through that here in Jax, FL.
Tax receipts were low, and the City council and po-po were crying there wasn’t enough $$ to keep the gravy train going as it has been. That is, too, when things WERE booming, they were the 1st to be bellied up to the trough “We have ‘extra’ $$ to hire XYZ!”.
Never did you hear the talks, nor a question, about doing with less.
Don’t even get me started on the pension reform that was passed up as well....3rd rail around here as well.
Woonsocket idolizes Detroit?