...proposing a "status quo" budget to last year's $73 million. "All inflation increases for utilities, fuel, contracted services, supplies, equipment and other services must be absorbed into the 2012 Budget," Carey wrote in a statement...

...the only direct cash government recycles into the peninsula economy. Government money pays for construction, contracted services, grants to organizations and public facilities, to name just a few. Federal largess has made its mark on the...

...asked to approve transferring $18,000 designated for ski hill insurance into the Parks and Recreation Department contracted services account to allow repairs and improvements to be made to the ski hill. The council previously decided to keep the...