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The City’s Finance Director, Roger Neumaier, recently updated readers on our financial performance for the first half of 2013 and also provided a look-ahead for 2014. The picture has noticeably improved in several areas.

Although we have not fully recovered from several years of financial strain, there are many positive signs that a corner has been turned. This is good news for the City’s General Fund in particular. The outlook is unfortunately not as positive for the City’s Street Fund.

In a column prior to last year’s City budget, I discussed the challenges facing the City’s s...