Candidates try to get a grip on the size of the city s shortfall and why it happened.
As if the city s fiscal situation were a blob prone to change shape at any moment all three candidates for York mayor struggled to grasp it. Some of the 60 people in attendance at Crispus Attucks chuckled. Crenshaw said he did not know the size, either. City officials have said that poor record-keeping made it difficult to tell how much money was in the city s coffers. Brenner applauded the administration for seeing that expenses were outrunning revenues recently rather than in late December when some big bills are due.