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Council members are looking closely at the city-run body shop as they search for ways to reduce the 2015 proposed budget.  
   The shop has not broken even for three years and was built without specific approval from the council. It has been a point of contention since then, with     Commissioner of General Services Carl Olsen championing it every year as some council members questioned it.  
   The shop is still in the red this year, but Olsen tried to deflect the council’s questions by saying that the county had reneged on promises to bring in business. The body shop could remove rust from the county’s large trucks and plows,     extending their useful life.  
   “The county tells me they’re going to bring it. They assure me it’s going to be there, and then it is not received,” Olsen said. “We would welcome more work.”  
   He projected, again, that the body shop would bring in $150,000 in revenue next year — although it is on track to bring in just $50,000 this year.  
   Council members questioned the revenue projection, given the body shop’s past performance.  
   A day after they raised concerns, county attorney Christopher     Gardner said the city has no reason to count on $150,000 in county business.
   The county budgeted to spend $50,000 to $60,000 on body shop work this year, he said, and the same next year.  
   City Finance Commissioner Deborah DeGenova said the rest of the revenue projection could be from insurance claims. The city can get paid when one of its vehicles is hit by another car.  
   But so far, that hasn’t worked       out to much revenue.  
   The body shop came in about $30,000 over budget in its first year, 2011. But for the following three years, the revenue was significantly less than the costs to run the shop. This year, the shop is on track to bring in about $50,000 in revenue and cost $92,300 to operate.  
   For 2015, body shop worker Michael McNulty has a salary of $54,122, plus $7,000 in overtime that could go to him or to other workers. With supplies and other expenses, the total cost is $88,600. That doesn’t include McNulty’s benefits.  
   Councilman Vince Riggi said it is time to cut McNulty’s position.    
   The city already uses other mechanics to run the sandblasting unit at the body shop to remove rust from city plows, Riggi said. He would be content to pay only for the supplies for that work.  
   “We have guys,” he said. “We could live without the body shop manager.”  
   He also said the city should     break out the cost of working on city vehicles vs. paid jobs for the county or other municipalities. Currently, there’s just one supply line for the shop in the city budget, with no indication what the money is buying and whose vehicles it is being used for.  
   “I don’t know what the cost is for doing our own work,” he said, adding that without that cost it is impossible to know whether the work is cost-effective in comparison to bringing plows to a private body shop.  
   “There’s no way of knowing,” he said, adding that the costs were just “thrown together, mishmash.”  
   “I think it’s good that we can sandblast the plows to get more life out of them,” he added.    
   But he doesn’t want to continue paying for a revenue-making operation that is actually costing the city money, he said.  
   Other council members were studying the numbers closely. They are expected to begin offering proposals for cuts next week.

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now help me to understand where the revenue is??????

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the body shop takes care of old vehicles much like the county nursing home takes care of old bodies and bills the same way....???????

here comes european economics.....like father like son