In 2003, Phelan negotiated a new lease with Quarry Hills Associates, which ran the newly-opened Granite Links Golf Club at Quarry Hills, that would give the city 10% of the club's gross revenues [REF].
In 2004, facing pressure from the Quincy Taxpayers Association, the Quincy city council voted to make $700,000 in specific cuts and cut the budget by another $2.1 million without identifying where the cuts would be made.