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The Payson school board this week adopted an optimistic preliminary budget plan, with lots of problems in the fine print.
A flush of federal funding has provided something of a financial high in the face of big enrollment declines and worrisome state funding formulas.
Kind of like giving pain killers to a cancer patient.
Still, the board members made the best of an uncertain situation â with promised federal funding for the moment preventing the widespread cuts that enrollment declines and extra costs related to the pandemic might otherwise require.
The district has suffered a roughly 15% enrollment decline since the onset of the pandemic â roughly 300 students. The drop wiped away years of slow enrollment growth. In addition, about 15% of students have opted to remain full time in distance learning mode, which also costs the district funding.