Former Gilbert Fire Chief Collin DeWitt has begun a new - if temporary - career as Gilbert's Town Manager at a time when the town is looking for ways to fill a $15 million budget hole.

Gilbert voters will decide in May whether to increase the local sales tax rate by a quarter of a cent.  If they do approve the increase, that should bring in enough revenue to cut the deficit in half.

However, if other cost-savings or revenue-generators cannot be found, "that means we'll have a number of layoffs in the end, though we're going to do everything we can to minimize that," DeWitt said in this story in the East Valley Tribune.