QUOTE(GeoW @ Jul 8 2007, 10:13 PM)
Rick Gray is getting more impressive all the time (despite the tax increase he brought on before he was even mayor).
That tax increase was inevitable. Charlie Smithgall left a budget that included spending $7 million from unrestricted reserve funds, which would have left Lancaster City's cash balance below what lenders demand for a good credit rating. Higher interest rates would have cost City taxpayers millions of dollars for decades.