Council cuts budget $50,000 to support dike fund

A conscientious, responsible Town Council, led by a determined Mayor Ramon Hayes, discharged its duties at its meeting Nov. 27. Early on Hayes warned the room, then full of people, “This conversation will be hard tonight. It will be a long meeting. I give you fair warning.”

Council members came in prepared to cut $50,000 from the general fund budget, almost five percent.

They did it by sacrificing Council and Mayoral items, reducing fire department expenses and shrinking their support for Art’s Alive. Hayes and the Council made a commitment to rethink the 34 year old event’s entire approach.

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