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Sell off the Toronto Zoo and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Go for single police officer patrols, cancel public health funding for AIDS prevention, and student nutrition. Close libraries.

That is just a taste of a long list of possible cuts for Mayor Rob Ford’s powerful executive committee to chew on next week, when it delves into suggestions by KPMG consultants on how to trim the budgets of the city’s various agencies, boards and commissions. The highly anticipated, and savings rich, report was released Thursday morning.

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Other cutbacks to consider:

• Sell parking lots; sell or lease TTC parking lots;

• reduce or eliminate the Community Partnership and Investment Program, which issues grants to major cultural institutions like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, public health’s AIDS and drug prevention initiatives, the heritage office;

• divest itself of Exhibition Place; make the Canadian National Exhibition Association an independent organization;