After a split vote last week, Lamesa City Council members voted 6-0 on Tuesday evening to approve the city’s new 2019-2020 budget on second reading. The latest vote, however, doesn’t mean there was no longer any disagreement on the issue. Mayor Pro Tem Doug Morris, who cast the lone opposing vote, said he still would prefer adding funding in the budget for a new investigator’s position in the police department. “I want to again go on record that I believe we need to be 100 percent supportive of police and fire and defer to their department heads,” Morris said, referring to the funding ...