"It takes people who have been out of office to question the assumptions," especially in the municipal budget, he said.

Health care accounted for about 25% of the municipal budget.

It will be part of the $14.2 million municipal budget for 2006.

"Because we have managed our municipal budgets well and he has not."

The local share is $1.6 million, $150,000 more than the entire 1989 municipal budget.

The municipal budget for 2007 provides 4 353 778 dollars.

The proposed municipal budget would increase the tax rate by 3 percent.

Until recently, money for the library has come from the city's municipal budget.

Few understand that the tax rate has changed with the new year's municipal and school budgets.

The municipal budget runs at about $1 billion a year, of which $19m goes on the police department.