School board facing tough budget choices
Now comes the hard part.
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The Payson school board this week adopted an optimistic preliminary budget plan, with lots of problems in the fine print. A flush of federal funding has provided something of a financial high in the face of big enrollment declines and worrisome state funding formulas. Kind of like giving pain killers to a cancer patient. Still, the board members made the best of an uncertain situation â with promised federal funding for the moment preventing the widespread cuts that enrollment declines and extra costs related to the pandemic might otherwise require. The district has suffered a roughly 15...