And $3.9 million is the amount in the city's preliminary budget for next year.

The preliminary budget also shows he has made some difficult choices.

In his preliminary budget proposal, the mayor cut $276 million for those programs.

The program is renewed in the Mayor's preliminary budget for the coming year.

There is still more than a month left before the submission of the preliminary budget.

Today, he will signal his priorities in a preliminary budget.

The authority issued its financial plan and 2004 preliminary budget last month, four months earlier than usual.

In his preliminary budget for the next fiscal year, the Mayor ordered the board to cut $181 million.

The administration also wanted to reach an accord before releasing its preliminary budget later this month.

His thinking on how to cope will be apparent tomorrow, when the city's preliminary budget is due.

In many of the last several years, the city has waited until about Feb. 1 to present the preliminary budget.

He has challenged legislators who don't like the proposal, included in his preliminary budget, to come up with the money another way.

The proposal was part of the Mayor's preliminary budget.

The school board approved a preliminary budget that does not furlough any professional staff.

The operating divisions prepare their preliminary budgets for the following year in March.

The board is expected to announce the selection of a temporary chief administrative officer and a preliminary budget.

Moreover, the city's cultural groups are bracing for the 15 percent cuts proposed in the mayor's preliminary budget.

His preliminary budget plan was an impressive starting point for keeping the city safe, clean and fiscally sound.

The preliminary budget coming out today is expected to cut $6 million from the Fire Department rather than the original $57 million.

The administration had explicitly agreed to avoid such scare tactics when it put together its preliminary budget in January.

The job reductions were detailed in the railroad's preliminary budget for next year, which the authority released on July 27.

The preliminary budget proposal must also be printed and made available for public inspection at least 20 days prior to its adoption.

In 2009, 70 school districts passed preliminary budgets that exceeded their anticipated tax revenues.

Feb. 1 - In his preliminary budget, he proposes delaying part of the next class as well.

Mayors usually begin to divulge plans for the next fiscal year each January in a preliminary budget.