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Costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to be about $1.3 million in the 2021 fiscal year, State University of New York at Fredonia officials noted.
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The State University of New York at Fredonia is anticipating roughly a $1.9 million loss in the 2020-21 fiscal year, mostly due to additional costs of COVID-19. Costs of the virus between testing, cleaning and personal protection equipment is estimated to be about $1.3 million.
“Thanks to academic affairs we were able to obtain the enrollment numbers we had predicted back in the fall, so we’re looking at being about $900,000 better than we had predicted. Predominantly it’s on the tuition level,” Vice President of Finance and Administration Michael Metzger said at the College Council meeting last week. “Our state support has been reduced for the last two years by 25%. It hasn’t been confirmed, but I have that in the forecast.”