Surprise bill scrambles budget

An unanticipated invoice was pulled from the bill list at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Moorcroft Council.

“We are being billed by Campbell County Hospital for patient intercept,” Councilman Paul Smoot explained his concern. “We have not yet received patient or transport information on that, but it is a legitimate bill for $299.”

Town Clerk/Treasurer Cheryl Schneider told the governing body that she had found the money to pay this bill in the ambulance budget.

“They didn’t have a lot so I took it out of their ‘medical supplies’,” she said.

Neither Mayor Ben Glenn nor...