City approves $15.7 mil. Preliminary budget

The City of Havre is looking at a $15.7 million budget for the next fiscal year, which its city clerk said is close to the same as it was last year.

"The total budget appropriations is down roughly $562,000 in total," Lowell Swenson said in response to a question from Council President Allen "Woody" Woodwick during Monday's city council meeting where the preliminary budget was approved. Swenson added that much of that reduction is due to completed projects that were not included in this year's budget.

"Other than that, most of (the departments) are in line with what the budget was last year,"...