Reporting these days is so awful, I can’t really tell what’s going on.
I’m pretty sure that the 2023 Boston budget was $4.3B.
Now the mayor is announcing a $56B budget? More than ten times as much? I doubt it.
I’d bet that the new budget is $5.6B. Which I would not consider “belt tightening” since it seems to be a 25% increase.
I have no idea what’s really happening here.
My bad.
I got the mayor and governor mixed up. The state budget is obviously a lot more than the city budget. But I still don’t think I see belt tightening.