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City's Citizen Budget Group:
Time To Privatize?

Published: April 10, 2006

Grand Rapids City Manager Kurt Kimball assembled an astute citizens group and enlisted its assistance in outlining the next fiscal year budget, one anticipated to be the most difficult in recent history because of its $8.9 million deficit, due in large part to cuts in state revenue sharing. Kimball said he was impressed with the group's understanding of municipal finances, adding it "did the city a great service by pointing to some of the structural things that need to change."

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