Montana Association of Counties comes to Hamilton
| September 24, 2008 |  View for printing |
Anxiety over federal funding for rural communities tops the agenda this week as the Montana Association of Counties http://maco.cog.mt.us/gathers in Hamilton for its annual conference.
County commissioners whose economies depend on farming, logging, grazing and other rural ways of life will be searching for long-term answers to their fiscal crunch, but for a few days at least, Bitterroot Valley businesses will see their cash registers ringing.
The MACo meeting is expected to generate an estimated $500,000 in spending on lodging, meals, shopping, gas and other goods and services. About 250 hotel and motel rooms have been reserved for the meeting, which runs Sunday to Thursday.
by JOHN CRAMER - Ravalli Republic
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