A city hall committee has wrapped up after a marathon meeting that has lasted about 21 hours. It gave the public a chance to voice their concerns on the controversial core service review.

Almost 350 people have signed up to have their say about the review and its cost-saving options at the executive committee meeting at city hall and at 11:15 p.m only 103 of them had spoken.

During a news conference earlier in the day, Ford, the committee's chair, told reporters that he was prepared to spend as long as it takes to hear from members of the public.

That means the meeting will likely go through the night and may not wrap up until as late as noon on Friday.

Councillors seemed prepared for as much Thursday drinking energy drinks supplied by Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti and trading in suits and blouses for more comfortable attire.

"If you went day by day to try to hear everything we could be here a week, so I think the right thing to do is to just keep on carrying through," Ford said, citing Saturday's Caribbean Carnival parade as a deadline to have the meeting completed by. "I'm being as fair as I can to each person that comes down to speak and that's what's happening."

Representatives of the Toronto Arts Council, Toronto HIV/AIDS Network, Afghan Canadians Seniors Centre and unions that represent city workers are among those who registered to speak.

(Click here to watch a live stream of the meeting)

Transit union president Bob Kinnear told CP24 that he would use his allotted time to remind council of the impact potential cuts to the TTC could have on residents.

"It (the core service review) makes all sorts of proposals on what should be done without talking about the implications to the city economically and socially and it is very very important that we look at the fallout of some of these proposals," he said.

The meeting has drawn such a large crowd that all the seats inside the committee room are filled. People are watching the meeting on monitors in overflow rooms.

People are usually given five minutes to speak, but the committee passed a motion to reduce the speaking time to three minutes. At around 9 p.m. councillors voted to reduce their time for questions to one minute from two.

Outside of an outburst from former mayoral candidate Kevin Clarke, who was escorted out of city hall after repeatedly yelling "You will be removed from office" at Rob Ford, the tone of the meeting has been cordial.

In addition to hearing from citizens, councillors went through the review, which was conducted by consultants from KPMG as the city tries to trim a $774-million budget shortfall.

The review found several ways the city can save money, but it drew complaints from people who are opposed to service cuts.

Library union to deliver petitions

Proposed cuts to libraries drew some of the biggest opposition. The Toronto Public Library Workers Union delivered 10 boxes containing more than 35,000 signed petitions and letters to the city clerk Thursday.

The petitions and letters call on the city not to close any library branches or privatize any library operations. Thousands of signatures and letters poured in after literary icon Margaret Atwood opposed the potential cuts and got into a war of words with city Coun. Doug Ford, the mayor's brother.

Some of the other cost-saving options that were proposed include cutting daycare spaces and late-night TTC service, eliminating attractions at Riverdale Farm and scaling back snow removal operations.

The city is also offering voluntary buyouts to 17,000 employees, but layoffs may be necessary if not enough people take the buyout package.

Toronto's emergency services - EMS, fire and police - are also facing cuts.

With a report from CP24's Nathan Downer