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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is confident he can save the city more than $100-million if given a second term, but he’ll be relying heavily on fresh faces at council to support his agenda.

During a news conference Thursday morning at his campaign headquarters in Etobicoke, which he says will be a weekly occurrence leading up to the Oct. 27 election, Mr. Ford promised to continue cutting the city’s budget and said he would keep property tax increases below the rate of inflation.

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“We have straightened out the ship, we are on the right path,” he said of his current term. “I can guarantee that Ms. Chow and Mr. Tory will take us back to the tax and spend ways of the past that I have undone.”

We have to look at maybe electing new councillors

But despite council rejecting certain spending cuts in the 2014 budget, Mr. Ford said he would be able to lead a new administration to execute his agenda.

“We have to look at maybe electing new councillors,” he said.

The mayor predicted there would be 15 new councillors after the October election, which would match the total number of seats that changed hands in 2010.