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Plymouth, PSU agree to continue talks as university projects deep budget cuts
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Select Board and Plymouth State University representatives agreed to resume negotiations in September over the university's Life Safety Services Agreement after state budget cuts left PSU facing multi-million-dollar shortfalls and uncertain LSSA funding for the town.
Plymouth Select Board members and Plymouth State University officials agreed on Monday to continue negotiations over the university's Life Safety Services Agreement (LSSA) after officials said the state budget reduced system support and left the university's campus-level funding uncertain. The board set a follow-up meeting for the second Monday in September to review any counterproposal from the university.
The university's president, identified in the meeting as President Birx, told the Select Board the state appropriation to the university system had fallen sharply, forcing an institutional reconfiguration and potential program consolidations. Birx said the system's allocation dropped from…
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