Anchorge budget for 2017 $499 Mil
Fire Dept $97 Mil
Maintenance and Operations $67 Mil
Police $109 Mil
So 54% of the budget is assigned to the services the Mayor has brought up. If we need to do major cuts a good portion of it would have to come from these services. 
The 'responsibilities' that he refers to is paying for adequate police and street maintenance. So, please explain how you would 'scale back on the responsibilities' and not scale back on police and street maintenance.