Challenging financial times in Camas

The impacts of a $1.6 million budget hole were revealed during last night’s council workshop, and the picture painted wasn’t pretty.

The cuts that will likely be made by the city are ones that will be felt and seen by citizens in a variety of ways. With cuts adding up to $800,000, levels of service that Camas residents have come to expect in recent years will certainly diminish — even as many city employees, from library pages to firefighters, police officers and parks maintenance workers will be working harder to serve the public.