Increasing demand, coupled with anticipated savings from mass production, could finally generate a market for the devices.
He had applied the anticipated savings to reductions in overall city expenditures, rather than to the school district, the legislators said.
He said that the new plan might mean the state would fall short of the $76 million in anticipated savings the coming fiscal year.
But the Clinton Administration has made it a priority this year, largely to use the anticipated savings to help finance other domestic programs.
Failure to deliver the anticipated savings due to low levels of departmental spend under management, and overall a declining spend profile.
The timetable for the cuts was unclear yesterday, as were the anticipated savings.
This will provide much of the merger's anticipated savings.
He added: "The anticipated savings of $100 million appears to be too little and too late.
He said the costs would have been even higher without the $327.2 million in anticipated savings from previously announced changes in the tunnel.
But he said that the anticipated savings from a drop in short-term and long-term hospitalizations should cover that expense.