Budget cuts worry Verde water group


“I just think we have an opportunity to be less rigid than the WAC. That rigidity has been part of the problem.”

--Doug Von Gausig

COTTONWOOD - The Verde Valley members of the Yavapai County Water Advisory Committee have tacitly agreed to demands from Prescott and Prescott Valley to let them cut next year's membership dues in half, but they worried Wednesday that the budget will go into the red the following year.

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