Thank you for your service. Hopefully your replacement will understand that when the Assembly freely spends money on every cause, no matter how unimportant to the community as a whole you are not  spending "the Municipality's money" you are spending MY money because the only money the Municipality has are taxes they took from ME. Like many taxpayers, MY money is not an infinite wellspring but a fixed bucket. Each time you passed an ordinance for more frivilous spend it raised taxes and added another hole to the bottom of that bucket. I hope your successor will understand that  because it is a concept you never demonstrated an understanding of..