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School board anticipating more budget woes, Tampa Tribune

December 12, 2008
By Ronni Blair

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County School Board members will deal with more than just their current $8.7 million shortfall when they meet Tuesday in a budget workshop to review the school district's financial woes.The board also will be bracing for a 2009-10 budget year that's expected to be even worse than the current one.Superintendent Heather Fiorentino and her staff put together a list of potential spending cuts that was distributed to school board members Friday.

The list includes a Plan A to deal with the current shortfall, a Plan B to deal with an anticipated shortfall of $10 million to $15 million that could be coming in the last five months of this fiscal year, and a Plan C that looks toward 2009-10.

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