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Board to send joint request for $10M water/sewer funds and asks legislature to raise small-school revenue

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The board approved a letter to Representative Mike Clampett asking for $10 million for water and sewer infrastructure (a joint request with the town and county) and supported a 40% increase in small-schools revenue that would raise district annual funding from about $1.7 million to approximately $2.4 million.

The Swain County Board of Education approved a budget-letter package to send to Representative Mike Clampett that includes a joint request with the town and county for $10 million to address water and sewer infrastructure needs and a request that the General Assembly increase the district's small-schools revenue by 40 percent.

Staff presented a draft engineer's estimate and town…

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