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1 argument was made that since there had been
2 such significant cuts over such a long period
3 of time, the argument was referred to as the
4 death by a thousand cuts that if we tried to
5 do another round of reductions across the
6 system that there were going to be places
7 where we were going to see public safety
8 compromised, we were going to see health
9 issues and law enforcement issues and issues
10 that we had barely been keeping under control
11 and in some places not keeping under control,
12 and it was going -- the twenty-two million
13 reduction across the board was going to
14 exacerbate that to a point where many in the
15 field felt that we couldn't go.
16 And so the argument was made that
17 what we needed to think about was identifying
18 those units that were most expensive to
19 operate with the least amount of revenue, the
20 least amount of visitation, and take those
21 units off line and move those dollars, in
22 essence, to the rest of the system to keep the
23 majority of the system functioning at a safe
24 level. And so that was the debate as to which
25 way we should go.
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