 Spring Cleaning is here and Appalachian Wireless has the deal to get you started. Get a Samsung Galaxy S8 for a penny or a Galaxy S8 Plus for only $89.99 on the region's best network. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. To your agreement required, see store for details. The Pye County Fiscal Court held a special called Meeting Thursday to discuss the upcoming budget. Pye County Judge Executive Bill Deskin submitted the budget from last year and he and the magistrates went through it line by line to see what needs to be changed, added, or cut out. One hot topic during Thursday's meeting was whether or not the county could repeal the 1% occupational tax. This is a hard time. People want the tax taken off, but we don't have a money machine here that runs on tax dollars. So whenever you cut out $3.5 million as it's being proposed, we got to figure out what services we're going to have to cut out, if any. At this point, the court has only made one definite decision for next year's budget. Everything else is still up in the air. One of the things that we've decided has to be a priority is to put a roof back on this courthouse. It's leaking and it's been here 25 years. Deskin says one good thing about next year's budget plan is that the magistrate's salary will be cut in half due to the county's switching from six magistrates to three commissioners. But it's going to be a difficult situation to try to get everything, employ these raises, repeal some taxes, and move money around. It's going to be an ongoing process probably for the next two weeks. The Pike County Fiscal Court's budget must be approved and submitted by June 1. In Pikeville, Shelby Porter, EKB News.