Less than eight weeks before a 2013 budget must be adopted, Lansford council on Tuesday struggled to get enough members to agree to get together to start crafting the spending plan.
Not only are some council members unwilling or unable to participate, the borough's auditors quit last month before much of the information needed to build the budget was documented.
Council President Rose Mary Cannon, during a public meeting dominated by bickering, asked for a show of hands of those willing to meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday to get the budget ball rolling.