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Article: CLOSINGS TO COVER COOPERATIVE EXTENSION'S SHORTFALL.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 3, 1996
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Byline: JOE PICCHI Staff writer
TROY -- Rensselaer County's Cooperative Extension, which has 18 employees, will close its doors for 21 days because it received $53,000 less than the agency budgeted from county funding.
The loss of $53,000, however, is magnified four times in Cooperative Extension's overall $1.2 million budget, according to David Hawley, the agency's executive director.
``For every $1 we lose in county funding,'' said Hawley, ``we lose $4 in state and federal funding because that money is based on county appropriations. So we are actually losing about a quarter of a million dollars.''
For the past few years all ...
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