Jackson Budget News Today

Jackson firefighters again packed a city council meeting to demand raises.

A Jackson city councilman says the zoo is “a sacred monument to Jackson’s history” and a sign of the future.

The mayor says it will take a "shared sacrifice" to get firefighters raises.

Jackson firefighters are demanding a livable wage.

During a two-day retreat last week, Jackson Town councilors began to set priorities for the coming fiscal year, learned about personality styles and how to communicate and interact effectively, and heard from department heads, most of whom said that operations were at full capacity with very little capability to take on additional work. The bulk of Day 1 was spent working with Sam Haas of Emergenetics, contracted by the town to compile personality profiles of each of the five town councilors as...