Despite its rich economic conditions, the City puts great effort into maintaining its healthy fiscal conditions from aggressive tax efforts and through the control of excessive service provisions. For instance, in FY 2002, the City levied a new tax scheme, which was extremely rare among Thai localities, for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant. In terms of its spending, on the other hand, the City responded to constituency demands within a viable budget framework. In one case of the making of the FY 2008 budget requests; for example, the director of the City's new hospital of 60 beds estimated hiring 300 FTE staff, including physicians and certified nurses. However, the Mayor cut staff levels to 100 since he viewed the request a disproportional to the hospital's physical and fiscal capacity. Additionally, in respect to educational services, the City tries to run its schools in consistent with constituency demands and the municipal purse. It runs 11 schools in FY 2007, from kindergarten to K-12, with a student enrollment of 11,418 students. There were 750 teachers and teaching assistants to serve 304 classrooms, On average, a ratio of a municipal student to city population was about one to nine. This ratio is important for comparison with City of Tree Jasmine which will be showed later.