Cuts in the Fire Department budget have resulted in layoffs for the town's 18 per-diem firefighters who will lose their jobs at the end of September. Town Manager Vic Hodgkins in an Aug. 30 letter to each per-diem firefighter, wrote that the layoffs were the result of voters' decision at the June 17 town meeting to cut the Fire Department budget by $145,629. Board of Selectmen Chairman Scott Buffington, who seconded Budget Committee Chairman Rick Little's Fire Department motion at town meeting, noted the funding reduction requires officials to reorganize the way the Fire Department is run. In his motion, Little wanted to nix the per-diems, go back to an all-volunteer Fire Department and to cut the fire chief's salary from $40,000 to a $5,000 stipend, plus hourly wages.