Cutting back to save jobs

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com

The Hill County Commission has asked departments to try to cut back 2010 spending in anticipation of reduced revenues later in the year. “Hopefully we can avoid personnel reductions by tightening our belts early in the year,” the commissioners wrote in a memo to the departments. The commissioners said they asked departments to try to cut spending by 5 percent because of decreasing revenue in oil and gas and investment income, as well as having tax payments locked up because they were made under protest. “We're lookin...