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Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the National League both cities, its a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. My name is clarence anthony. Im the ceo and executive director of the National League of cities. Its a pleasure to have you in what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates
Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the National League both cities, its a pleasure to have you and what we call city hall away from your city, town or village in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents 19,000 city, towns and for being here because were releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. Youre interested in what is happening in cities all over america. Perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the fiscal nature of the data on our communities. You really want to hear about the pressures city leaders face every day in balancing their budget, dealing with issues, the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues. Or you just want to make sure that youre in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its