City Manager

The Casper City Council will further consider the proposed budget at a work session at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and can be viewed on the city's YouTube channel.

Napier estimated revenues from the Optional One-Cent Sales Tax No. 16, if renewed, would be about $12 million to $13 million a year, for a total of about $50 million.

U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson wrote Hedquist, who resigned in July 2015, was not able to marshal case law that showed former Police Chief Chris Walsh violated the Driver's Privacy Protection Act.

The city's lease with Cowboy Smokehouse to operate the 19th Hole restaurant at the Municipal Golf Course will run for three years.

Ray Pacheco was elected to Casper City Council in 2014.

King was apparently not the only one within the department who sent inappropriate emails, and other Fire-EMS personnel are being investigated as well.

In October 2016, Kenneth King announced his retirement soon after apologizing for an email he called a joke about suppressing evidence in the Oct. 2015 Cole Creek Fire.

The Casper City Council gave informal approval to raising building permit fees and planning and engineering fees during its work session Tuesday. Mayor Kenyne Humphrey said the changes are long overdue. "There was pretty strong majority to move that forward since there haven't been increases since 1979," Humphrey said...

Tom Pitlick will begin his tenure as new financial services director on Monday.

The city council hired Napier in part to find ways to resolve the budget crisis.