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At Monday night’s Fayette school board meeting, district officials revealed potential cost-cutting measures to address the district budget shortfall and dwindling contingency fund.
Those included:
- Discontinue staff pay raises for the foreseeable future.
- Reduce staff position allocations to schools, which could be up to $32 million in reductions.
- Reduce staff through a reduction in force, including federally funded positions.
- Cut school-level budgets, dropping the amount given from about $116 per student to $100 per student.
- Raise property taxes in Fayette County.
No decisions on those potential future solutions or a business and community work group’s recommendations were made Monday. Board members said they would continue to talk about potential next steps…