Fire the highest tier of workers in government positions within the city and advance those that have been doing their jobs. Don't hand these people top pay right away, let's see what they can do. That and a hiring freeze should remedy the shortfall in about 2 years. Salaries, insurance, benefits and savings from even vehicle use dropping would soon cover the shortfall. Hitting the very people that you depend on for the money in the first place with higher taxes is clearly thinking based on one thing. The stoopidity of the taxpayer and their willingness to put up with it. Everyone that voted for the same people to stay in the running for City of Wilmington political offices just need to hush and go away. You are voting FOR the higher taxes and incompetent mistake makers.