Budget

State officials testified about class sizes before the Legislature's Select Committee on School Facilities in Casper on Tuesday.

The Cercy family also has made large donations to the Casper Family YMCA, the David Street Station in downtown Casper, and the University of Wyoming.

Councilors will consider a resolution to amend the city’s budget in light of a steep decline in state-shared revenue, which was expected to be reduced by 43 percent.

Without a personal or corporate income tax and with some of the lowest sales and property taxes in the nation, Wyoming is heavily reliant on energy industry taxes.

Summerville said while the city council usually holds a meeting every year regarding economic development, this year is particularly important because of the significant change in the city’s funding.

The project is expected to be finished by July 2018.

Figuring Wyo might be watching and worrying, we asked, “Do our hunters and fishers see public land being lost here?” Some 60 percent might rather see a more comfortable margin, but basically ...

She said the biggest difference in the budget this year is that the city does has nearly no capital improvement program.