By Terri Harber

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Deciding whether — or how — to cut $150,000 from Baker City’s personnel expenses will be the task tonight of the 14-member budget board.

The meeting begins at 6 o’clock at Baker City Hall, 1655 First St.

 “If something doesn’t give a little bit, I’m not sure what this committee will deal with next year,” said Randy Daugherty, the board’s chairman.

He said the city has reached a financial “breakpoint.”

The board members have devoted much of the past two evenings to hearing about department budgets and overall spending concerns.

US Forest Service Photo Riding four-wheelers is a popular activity on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.

By Jayson Jacoby

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The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has released the most detailed document yet examining the public’s reaction to last year’s hastily withdrawn proposal to ban motor vehicles on more than 3,000 miles of forest roads.

The “Content Analysis Report,” which the Wallowa-Whitman posted Monday on its website (www.fs.usda.gov/wallowa-whitman/), analyzes the more than 3,300 letters the forest received during a three-month period in the spring of 2012.

Forest Supervisor Monica Schwalbach pulled the Travel Management Plan (TMP) on April 17, 2012, a month after it was released to the public.