Police recruits go on city payroll in fiscal year's last second.

He cut over 1,000 jobs from the city payroll by restructuring management and the police department.

He used his personal credit to obtain funds to cover the city payroll.

The city payroll has declined from 600 to 50 employees.

The board argued that he should use engineers already on the city payroll.

Since 1985, she has reduced the city payroll by 10 percent, or 2,235 workers.

Even cutting the city payroll has had a social dimension.

"But what have you learned while on the city payroll?"

He slashed 14,000 jobs from the city payroll, or about 7 percent.

And I say that as a close student of the city payroll.