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Conflicting priorities at the Department of Public Works make for a department that doesn’t work very well.
The Department of Public Works presented its budget after lunch on Friday Feb. 9. This was a procedurally weird Budget Committee meeting because the public engagement section was first thing in the morning, and in between those two events, council deferred the police budgets…