To come up with money for schools, Adams delayed cost-of-living increases and got rid of merit increases for about 1,400 non-union employees. He also took $900,000 from the budget office reserves -- one of the rainy day funds -- and pledged money from a tax amnesty program that doesn't end until July.
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