81.   Police Academy counselor Joe Saluke said the city needs to focus its efforts in town and consistently throughout the year.

82.   Proponents said the city needs a central park to stop over-development from eroding green space.

83.   President Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a bipartisan array of national political figures have concluded the city needed to be saved from itself and acted accordingly.

84.   Primarily, he said, the city needs more and better-equipped police officers with greater leeway to use effective methods to clean up the streets.

85.   Rather, American cities need to build more roads, encourage carpooling and boost transit.

86.   Returning from lunch one day, he said, he decided the area around the auditorium would make a perfect site for the arts center the city needed.

87.   Scotto said the city needs to expand the number of police-sponsored athletic leagues and other initiatives that put a human face on police officers.

88.   Riordan also supports the concept, saying through a spokeswoman that the city needs to find creative ways to maintain service to Los Angeles residents.

89.   She said the city needs to play a big part in the rebuilding.

90.   So, now that we have agreed on the one thing this city needs, how do we get it?