But when he took a look at the books, he saw it would save £3.8m each year on housing and £3m a year on waste, street cleaning and grounds services.
A den of dragons, and a cave for bears; A nest of vipers mix'd with adders foul, For now unrighteousness, a deluge wide, Pours round the land an overwhelming tide; And dark injustice, wrapped in paper sheets, Rolls a dread torrent thro' the wasted streets.
If only there were a vacancy for her to fill in some other large U.S. city that badly needs her bold vision and drive to recover wasted street space and to enhance wider use and greater safety for cyclists and pedestrians and well as cars and buses.
Mud will wash down the mountains, and rain will overflow gutters choked with rubble and waste, turning streets into filthy rivers.
For now, the situation that prompted American officials to give the sewage system top construction priority in 2004 continues to exist: Falluja remains dependent upon septic tanks that leak raw waste into streets and down storm drains and eventually into the Euphrates River, a main source of drinking water in Falluja and cities downstream.
His great contrivution to window display, the "closed down" window, is extravagant only in its waste of street frontage.
In certain cities, such as Lyon and Lille, cooperative urban communities have been created to enable the joint management and planning of a range of municipal services, among them waste disposal, street cleaning, road building, and fire fighting.
City mayors of today are now no longer second-rate politicians who traded a career in national politics for the administration of city waste collection, street maintenance and childcare.
A report on the proposals by the council's head of waste and street enforcement, stated: "There are two schools of thought regarding litter bins; one is that litter bins are needed for the public to use, indeed that some members of the public look for litter bins in which to deposit waste, otherwise they may take it home or drop it on the street.
He said: "The credibility of the whole review is – in my opinion – at stake, as I am not sure how the ministry will be able to justify that services such as waste collection, street cleaning, homelessness, public transport and libraries are needed solely on the basis of population numbers no matter where you live.
