Lamesa City Council members on Thursday will consider approving a new budget with a projected deficit expected to total over a half-million dollars. A public hearing on that budget proposal for the 2019-2020 fiscal year will be held before the council takes action during a special meeting to begin at 5:30 pm.at City Hall. At the outset of a final budget work session on Thursday of last week, City Manager Shawna Burkhart said the latest budget computations projected a deficit of about $597,000. During that meeting Mayor Josh Stevens recommended trimming the deficit to around $535,000 by postponing the hiring of an additional ...