Letter to the editor: Regrets necessity of cuts

I am sorry the decision had to be made to cut Medicine Bow Fire Department from the County Fire payroll.

It is not the only entity or municipal fire department that will experience the effects of a state assessment that is down over $100 million dollars resulting in $8 million that had to be cut from Carbon County’s upcoming budget.

The County departments were asked to resubmit their budgets to 2010 levels which eliminated some excess and from there we went through line by line reducing expense even more

Some of this reduction included cutting and/or eliminating outside agency requests, cuttin...