HAMBLEN COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) – The City of Morristown is desperately looking for ways to save money from its budget. To do so, they are going to have to make cuts that could affect some city provided services.

A member of the fire department told Volunteer TV News on Tuesday that the city is near bankruptcy and cutes have already been made to both the fire and police departments. On Tuesday night, the city council voted to make operational budget cuts and reduce some employees work weeks by an hour and a half.

According to Morristown’s mayor, her office and city employees worked together to come up with the cuts.

“While this was not easy to do, it certainly is better than sending a number of employees back home without any pay,” said Mayor Barbara Barile. “All of our department heads enlisted the help of their staff members in order to make those cuts."

Here's just one example of the budgetary crisis: Morristown paid to send recently sent two firefighters off for training. When they returned home fully trained, there were no available jobs for them..