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It is a clue that the auditor said the OPEB costs are unsustainable even with a tax increase using most of the maximum allowed, and also that the road budget is a pittance, far less than needed to have workable roads. Solution? Hand out raises and articulate NO PLAN for these legal obligated trends (other than giving free lifetime single health insurance to new hires, instead of lifetime family health insurance!). How high can the property taxes go to keep up before the property value tipping point? CF lost control of the schools, and went bankrupt, only to still *raise* property taxes 19%! The ONLY thing that has saved the situation here for a few extra years is declining school enrollment and the city "leadership" did not even capitalize on that by reducing schools in a timely manner. Bottom line, taxes will go up, and to one extent or another property values will drop, and people will leave. You guys keep talking about Chapter 9. Well I have news for you it will be numerous councils, numerous budgets and numerous tax increases before that level of crisis is reached. Who knows what will happen, but it probably will not crash to the ground like the Hindenburg, nor will any affordable solution appear. It looks like bigger and bigger tax bills while schools and roads slowly crumble and other services are curtailed. The best solution for those who cant accept that reality is probably to simply bite the bullet and relocate out of RI to a better fiscally managed place.