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The next day, Mr. Laurence, as chairman of the fair’s science committee, appeared before the city’s Board of Estimate to promote the project.

In St. Louis, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment approved a plan last month that would amend the budget, which would cut $4 million from the police department and eliminate 98 vacant officer positions.

Jones’ office said the fiscal year 2021-22 budget proposal was presented to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which will host a public hearing on Friday.

He was masterful in dealing with the City Council and the Board of Estimate, which in those days held the purse strings.

But as New York City government changed — and the powerful Board of Estimate that once helped to determine which organizations could join the group was dissolved — the process for adding new members became “atrophied,” said John Calvelli, a former chairman of the Cultural Institutions Group and an executive with the Wildlife Conservation Society.