Potential City Deficit Bigger Than Mayor Expected: Mayor Says Big Potential Deficit Looms
Mayor Marion Barry, facing a much larger potential city budget deficit this year than he had expected, promised yesterday that his administration would do a better job of handling the budget problem than it did when confronted with u similar crisis in 1980.</br></br>Barry, speaking at his monthly press conference, said that while he will not propose tax increases for</br></br>D.C. residents who already face the areaÛªs heaviest tax burden, lie would not rdle out signing tax increase pro-</br></br>He said there will be no cutbacks in education, corrections, the police force or the fire department, but indicated that all other city agencies and functions are potential targets. He reiterated a promise that there would be no layoffs of city workers during the next four years.</br></br>BarryÛªs disclosure over the weekend of a potential $110 million deficitÛÓjust over 5 percent of the DistrictÛªs total budget of about $2 billionÛÓcomes less than a month after his successful reelection campaign in which he took credit for having resolved the earlier budget crisis and a week after city officials said they expected a shortfall in city revenues of about $20 million.