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However, the issue stems from the county facing a reduction of its own, officials said.
Liana Pepin, Marquette County 4-H educator with MSU Extension, said the Marquette County Board of Commissioners had to deal with a budget reduction of $455,000 from fiscal year 2020.
Pepin said in an email that during a recent budget meeting, the county board made what she called the “difficult” decision to cut MSUE funding, although MSUE was not the only program to receive cuts.
Erin Carter, director of the MSUE district that covers Marquette, Alger, Luce, Schoolcraft, Mackinac and Chippewa counties, said in an email that the reduction puts extension programming about $13,000 below its base funding amount of $59,562 from the county.