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Contentious board approves balanced budget
by Michael DeVault - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
The Monroe City Schools will begin the new fiscal year with a balanced budget, but it might not stay that way for long.

That was the warning delivered by interim Superintendent Derenda Flowers, who worked for several weeks to trim more than $2 million from the school system's budget to balance it. The current budget estimate places expenditures for the upcoming year at almost $58 million.

"We're down on student count, so that will have an impact," Flowers told the School Board at a regular meeting Tuesday.

While the final attendance numbers have not posted, Flowers said early estimates place the number at roughly 350 students fewer than in previous years.
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