San Juan County’s budget cuts forces hard choices - The Journal of the San Juan Islands

San Juan County’s budget cuts forces hard choices - The Journal of the San Juan Islands

San Juan County Council members spent much of Tuesday’s marathon budget session sorting through reductions that ranged from the trivial — $100 left in the food budget for Council meetings — to the genuinely painful. Two items on the same agenda captured just how painful: a proposal to close the heart of Orcas Island, the Eastsound Village Green, and a presentation showing how a handful of community volunteers are saving the County hundreds of th…