Looks to me like you and your entire council and mayor need to be voted out office. I see no other solution. You have no concept of wealth creation that I can detect.
Thanks for your vote of confidence. Our former mayor stepped down rather than make tough decisions, and the councilman that stepped into the job hand-picked me to take his seat. We're here to try to clean up the mess. We've shut down the spending, reorganized some things to get an iron grip on certain departments that used to spend like crazy. We do have income production, but it doesn't rise as quickly as flood water.
If you have prior experience in city government, I'm sure open for suggestions.