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Article: School Committee meets Flynn's demands on cuts
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 13, 1991
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After months of feuding with Mayor Flynn, the Boston School
Committee moved last night to eliminate its budget deficit by voting
$1.9 million in spending cuts and agreeing to most other conditions
of a Flynn offer to provide additional funding to the schools.
The Flynn administration had offered to allocate an extra $4
million to the school system if the committee reduced its deficit by
an equal amount. Last night's reductions combined with $2.1 million
in cuts the committee adopted two weeks ago totals the $4 million
sought by Flynn.
The compromise leaves the anticipated school spending for the year
at $394 million.
None of the cuts, which include a reduction in overtime for
custodians ...