Mayor Tom Murphy submitted his final city budget yesterday, pinning Pittsburgh's hopes for fiscal stability on deep savings in the Fire Bureau and a hiring freeze almost everywhere else.

Murphy said city residents will feel the pain in multiple, small ways, as perhaps 150 positions are left vacant. "I don't know that the city can sustain 125 or 150 fewer jobs," he said. Residents will notice it "around public works issues, grass cutting, street repairs, that kind of thing."

The budget includes two fewer swimming pools than the 14 the city opened this year.

Also absent is any funding for school crossing guards after June.

No tax increases are proposed.