Courtesy City of Cincinnati
Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley says he's proud of the way the city responded to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Cranley's State of the City address is being released as online videos this week.
"2020 was one of the most challenging, difficult, tragic years that I've lived through, and I know almost all of you as well have suffered in very many ways," Cranley began the address.
"We were also worried that revenues would drop much faster than the savings. And therefore, not only would we not be able to bring those folks back, but we might have to make permanent layoffs or other furloughs going forward," Cranley told WVXU. "So it was really one of those scary, scary moments where you're just looking into the abyss and you're not sure how far it's going to go down before you hit bottom."