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I am pl <br />fiscal year <br />Members, as <br />City, for yc <br />in this prop <br />City departm <br />Council appc <br />and cooperat <br /> <br /> SinCe b <br />about the im <br />to speak to <br />in our City. <br />partnerships <br />established <br />our elected <br />leadership a <br />there has be <br />civic, busin <br />While there <br />mistrust, ii <br />who find it <br />also realize <br />Council and <br /> <br /> What do <br />signffy that <br />the beachhea <br />what an olde <br />understand t <br />importantly, <br />not been con <br />active parti <br /> <br /> The rec <br />effort and t <br />however, is <br />had a debili <br />government, <br />focus areas <br />focus areas <br /> <br />'o Fis¢ <br />o Educ <br />o Econ <br />o Neig <br />o Publ <br /> <br /> My comm <br />to anyone in <br />conservatism <br />benefits for <br />in many year~ <br />more importa <br />reduction in <br />enhanced. Ti <br />elsewhere in <br />beeh necess~ <br /> <br />BUDGET MESSAGE <br /> <br /> 829 <br /> <br />eased to present the recommended City budget for <br />1992-93. I first would like to thank you as Council <br />well as the many civic and business leaders of our <br />ur valuable suggestions, many of which are reflected <br />osed budget. I also express my appreciation to the <br />ent heads, constitutional officers, our courts, <br />intees, and many other officials without whose support <br />ion this proposed budget would not have been possible. <br /> <br />~lng appointed City Manager, I have spoken and written <br />portance of "Workable Partnerships." I must continue <br />the significance and great importance of partnerships <br /> We have been very successful in forging community <br /> and our success is manifest. We now have <br /> much greater degree of trust and confidence between <br /> eadership and our business community, and our elected <br /> nd Our all important neighborhoods. At the same time, <br /> ~n elimination of suspicion and mistrust among our <br /> ess, and local government administrative leadership. <br /> nay still remain vestiges of old suspicion and <br /> feel our progress.has been so substantial that those <br /> ~onvenient to "hold on" to the old ways of thinking <br /> that "business" has not been "as usual," because the <br />administration now listen, hear and~respond. <br /> <br /> these accomplishments mean for our City? They <br /> Portsmouth, Virginia has established itself firmly on <br /> of becoming, as I stated last year, "a new model of <br /> city can be." We now have the perspective to <br /> forces which shape our community's growth and, most <br />the collective strength to influence them. We have <br />tent simply to respond to change, we have become <br />~ipants in directing its course. <br /> <br />)mmended budget is a product of the collective team <br />le new perspective I have just described. It also, <br />~ product of our economic times. The recession has <br />;ating impact on individuals, families, business, and <br />naking necessary an unyielding commitment to those <br />~hich are most important to our City. What are these <br />~nd their significance to Portsmouth? <br /> <br />~1 Responsibility <br />~tion <br />)mic Vitality <br />]borhood Identity <br />[c Safety <br /> <br /> FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY <br /> <br />[tment to fiscal responsibility, by now, is no secret <br />our City nor the region. This necessary <br />as supported by you, has yielded many positive <br />our citizens. Even amid our worst national recession <br />;, we are better off today than in years past and, <br />~tly, our citizens have not realized any significant <br />municipal services. In fact, many services have been <br />~is is in stark contrast to many wealthier communities <br />Virginia and the nation, where cuts in services have <br /> <br /> <br />