Waldo County commissioners asked to make further cuts to proposed budget

Waldo County commissioners asked to make further cuts to proposed budget

Waldo County’s budget committee is asking county commissioners to further squeeze their proposed 2026 budget. At a budget meeting on Tuesday, the committee spent three hours discussing the commissioners’ most recent budget proposal which amounts to a 17% increase over 2025. That proposal, released on Jan. 16, was itself a pared-down version of the budget proposed in December, which called for a 36% hike and was met with public outcry. But this n…