The board said the Mayor should consider using the surge in tax revenues to cut the future deficits by reducing the city's high debt burden.

"We are asking the Mayor to consider shifting us from the category of 17 1/2 percent to smaller cuts."

In that context, the Mayor must consider whether the city can afford the tax relief his budget calls for.

City officials had said last week that the Mayor was considering limiting or ending the districts' power to sell bonds.

"On the basis of the record today," he said, "the Mayor should not consider resigning, and I support him in that decsision."

The Mayor and the Governor-elect should consider an approach similar to what worked in even more difficult conditions in 1975.

The Mayor not only knew of his work but clearly considered it of the highest importance.

Now the Mayor is considering split sessions, which few officials would wish on their own children.

Bored or not, the Mayor should consider himself lucky.

The Mayor should also consider how the city would attract and retain business without an educated work force.