True...but between freepin' I'm working on my office budget for the next two years. Not pretty. Especially at this time of night.
Budgeting hint: If you want a new city owned car, or a new hosted web service application... or whatever... ask for a submarine, for environmental (of course) research purposes.
The submarine needs to cost at least 15-50M for purchase and about 3-5M/yr for maintenance.
Once they find out that you can "get by" with merely a new car for your group or a cool web application that "only" costs about 500K to kick off... you're in like flint.
Trust me on this... :-)