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Shrinking City Government

How Ann Arbor cuts its staff

by James Leonard

posted 4/27/2012

"When I was elected, I could see that the city had built up too many employees in the '90s," says mayor John Hieftje. "Take safety services. The police had more officers in 2000 than they did in 1991, and this was after the university had started its own police department. And that's just one example from across the whole city. I recognized that this was an

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