Common Council members on Thursday approved a $535 million budget in the isolation of a pandemic.
"We have not laid one person off," said the South District's Chris Scanlon. "The City of Buffalo has not laid off one person as a result of this pandemic. Not a single service has been cut."
It's an essentially balanced budget, much different from last year, when the city approved a budget with a $65 million deficit on Brown's premise that Washington would throw money at the revenue problems of local governments across the country.
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"Hard work sometimes pays off. Sometimes it doesn't. But, boy-oh-boy, luck sure does," said the North District's Joe Golombek. "Who would have thought that the Democrats would capute the presidency, the Congress, the Senate and be able to put together a package of $300 and some million dollars for the City of Buffalo?"