The first file on the ward budget hearings began with the ward allocation book and signed hearing notes. The city then checked the source, heard affected residents and sent a second office to repeat the count.
The current Year fifth, cold harbor window 3 file records 17 budget lines checked against ward requests; the previous window records 19. The longer sequence makes the change visible, while each count remains tied to its own dates.
A turning point was the observation that a drainage repair entered as a shared cost in two neighboring wards. It narrowed the discussion from a general claim to a question about how the rule works at the site.
North Ward counts the upstream work while South Ward counts the homes reached by the runoff. Both figures describe part of the same repair. The shared record is larger than it was at the start, although the parties still assign it different weight.
Alimited trial begins under the same public measure used in the old file. The Year fifth, cold harbor window 3 file remains open for its scheduled decision. The clerk will publish both ward estimates beside the engineer’s route map.
