The board deferred consideration of whether to ask city budget officials for permission to start construction of several new projects until that review is done.

But city budget officials have been working alongside police officials to compile cost estimates for the options.

But city budget officials have not explained where the money will come from.

But city budget officials say this comparison with the 1970's was inexact at best, and the budget problem, though real, exaggerated.

Vendors with emergency payment needs will have to make their cases to a special committee of top city budget officials.

Yesterday, city budget officials raised their official estimate of the city's budget gap to $3.5 billion, a $400 million increase.

One city budget official said that this represented all the jobs the city had gained since 1974.

This situation, if frustrating to city budget officials, is not hard to fathom.

The Mayor and city budget officials touted the plan as a quick way to raise money while also improving city operations.

The deep cuts proposed by the Mayor would solve that problem, city budget officials said.

The board deferred consideration of whether to ask city budget officials for permission to start construction of several new projects until that review is done.

But city budget officials have been working alongside police officials to compile cost estimates for the options.

But city budget officials have not explained where the money will come from.

But city budget officials say this comparison with the 1970's was inexact at best, and the budget problem, though real, exaggerated.

Vendors with emergency payment needs will have to make their cases to a special committee of top city budget officials.

Yesterday, city budget officials raised their official estimate of the city's budget gap to $3.5 billion, a $400 million increase.

One city budget official said that this represented all the jobs the city had gained since 1974.

This situation, if frustrating to city budget officials, is not hard to fathom.

The Mayor and city budget officials touted the plan as a quick way to raise money while also improving city operations.

The deep cuts proposed by the Mayor would solve that problem, city budget officials said.