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By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg refuses to rule out a proposal to charge residents for hauling away their trash.
"It's in the mix," Bloomberg told reporters while attending a groundbreaking ceremony in Staten Island Wednesday. "I'm not going to rule out anything. There's no sacred cows."
The fee is just one of a host of options being considering as the city faces shrinking funds in the coming fiscal year, he said.
"You put all of these ideas in the hopper and then you see what you have to do," he said.
The mayor also said he was growing increasingly worried that the city would not be receiving millions of dollars in federal health care funding that it had expected.
