The big picture: Where your local tax dollars are spent

After months of preparation and a change in budgeting philosophy that’s still unfolding, Butte-Silver Bow has produced a giant document http://www.co.silverbow.mt.us/documentcenter/view/3587 that puts the county’s finances and operations in terms most anyone can understand.

Want to know where your local tax dollars are going and how they’re going and what exactly all these Butte-Silver Bow departments do and what they plan to do going forward?

How about the average response times of Butte-Silver police and firefighters, or how many people drive here each day from Anaconda-Deer Lodge County to work, or how miles of roads the county maintains?

Mike Smith [email protected]

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