Whether the investment will pay off in the long run will be determined by how much the authority saves on electricity, a commodity whose price changes quicker than a New Yorker can flip on a light.
The authority saved the NHS more than £74m by challenging excessive legal costs in 2013-14, and the proposals to put strict limits on legal bills will help it further.
In the last five months, Mr. Kreindler said, more than 60 tax abatement offers from American Tax Relief had been accepted by tax authorities, saving clients more than $2 million and reducing their taxes by 90 percent.
Then the IMF and the international banking authorities saved the international banking system by lending just enough money to the heavily indebted countries to enable them to avoid default but at the cost of pushing them into a lasting depression.
With council budgets under pressure, can local authorities save on their education budgets?
Swift action by medical authorities saved former president Bill Clinton from a possibly fatal heart attack.
And for authorities: Save yourself, and the taxpayers, some trouble by perhaps using greater discretion when deciding to press ahead with charges.
The council said the new terms and conditions would help the authority save £2.5m - equivalent to 120 jobs.
Andrew Kerr, who helped the authority save more than £18m last year, has only been in the job for 18 months.
