This is a very old game. I’ve worked in the public sector (education, health) and I know that huge dollars could be saved and nobody would notice, which is why they don’t get saved. The standard response to budget cuts is to cut back on the things that people will notice, in an effort to produce a backlash.
CS residents are too stubborn and smart to fall for that crap. I clean up trash that I see when I’m in the parks and if I see someone littering they’ll get an earful. Many of my co-workers are the same way, it’s a mentality that many people share here.
There are the “other” people that move in from other states that don’t understand the rules and have to be brought up to speed. Maybe the city will wise up and stop wasting money on non-essentials and all this non-sense will end.