Councilmen Delia Jasso and David Neumann will be present to give and gather input at a budget town hall meeting next Tuesday night, Aug. 17 at Methodist hospital’s Hitt Auditorium. Neumann will hold another meeting Thursday, Aug. 19 at Kiest Recreation Center, and Jasso will hold a second meeting on Monday, Aug. 30 at the Martin Weiss Recreation Center.

Contributing editor Jeff Siegel has had quite a bit to say on the subject on the Advocate Back Talk blog, whether it’s the budget winners and losersheliports, or an entire podcast devoted to the budget crisis.

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If you want to hear about the process of slashing more than $130 million from the budget straight from the horse’s mouth, tune in to KERA-TV’s interview program “Think” with Krys Boyd this Friday, Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. In this episode, Boyd talks with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm about what the budget cuts mean to public safety and city services in the coming year.