"I fear that the Sustainable Funding Committee will blunder today by recommending to City Council three proposals aimed right at the pocketbook of taxpayers, effectively dooming these ideas to defeat at the ballot box, when what’s needed from the committee is a more balanced and holistic review of the city’s fiscal and structural situation, which looks not just at the revenue side of the ledger, but produces some innovative, out-of-the-box ideas on what might be done to outsource or streamline city assets or services."