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Editorial: Late start to city budget talks can't mean a rushed finish
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk, for a number of very good reasons, will be delivering her proposed budget for the coming fiscal year to the City Council relatively late.
So both Kirk and the council may be tempted to rush their deliberations on it with an eye toward approving it before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1. But all should take the advice of the council's chief budget official, Councilor Jason Grow, and resist that temptation. It would be better that the budget be late than for the mistakes of the past to be extended for yet another year.
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