Have I time for a quick question for the mayor?
It's delightful to see you. I really appreciate your presentation, Mayor Mandel, and certainly my party is in sync with what you're recommending. We have long felt the way to distribute the money is to municipalities.
One of the issues I haven't heard discussed today--and I welcome your input to this--is that one of the advantages, of course, of long-term, committed, stable funding is that you can actually create long-term, sustainable employment. I was wondering if you'd speak to that.
The second question is while I agree that municipalities themselves should decide what they should spend the money on in consultation with their taxpayers, how do we make sure we can also have policy-drivers? For example, how do we encourage municipalities to be spending money supposedly to the new green economy?