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If you’re a D.C. government employee, you’re going to get four unpaid days off in the near future; and if you make anywhere north of $40,000 a year, your taxes aren’t going up — two key points of a revised plan, sent out early this morning by D.C. Council Chair and Mayor-elect Vince Gray, which intends to close the city’s $188 million budget gap.

Despite fevered advocacy from social service advocates who saw their budgets slashed in the original plan presented by Mayor Adrian Fenty, Gray seems to have stuck to his campaign pledge to cut as much as possible before raising any taxes. The furloughs in his budget will save the city $19.3 million.

About the only thing that the social service advocates can cheer about is that Gray fully restored $6.3 million in funding for adult training, $400,000 for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and all but $200,000 for the Healthy Schools Initiative. (The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, TANF, seems to be the biggest loser in the budget cutting.) Neighborhood activists will be happy to know that $1.6 million in commercial revitalization funding to Main Streets and Green Teams was restored, while $700,000 was given back to grant tax relief to businesses along H Street NE that have suffered from recent construction along the commercial corridor. (Conversely, $1.2 million was cut from streetscape improvements to 18th Street in Adams Morgan.)

Gray also created a $40 million cash reserve for future spending shortfalls, including the $590,000 needed to run a special election to fill Councilmember Kwame Brown’s (D-At Large) seat once he takes Gray’s job. Gray also funded the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, a position Fenty got rid of, and a D.C. Open Government office.