High Country talks budgets

At 6:25 p.m. on Friday, at the Hanna Town Hall, the High Country Joint Powers Board (HCJPB) held a special meeting to discuss the budget.

“Medicine Bow did not accept our budget as presented,” Toby Smith, Chairman of the HCJPB and Medicine Bow rep said. “They asked us to redo it. I guess Hanna Town Council did the same thing.”

Besides Smith, those in attendance to this special meeting were Sharon Biamon, mayor of Medicine Bow and rep for the town; Morgan Irene, mayor of Elk Mountain and rep; Marcia Beals, Hanna rep and HCJPB treasurer; and Lois Buchanan, mayor of Hanna.

“The suggestion that wa...