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SANDY -- The Canyons District School Board on Tuesday night will consider building five furlough days into its budget, which begins July 1, as a way to fill a $13 million budget gap.
"The furlough would save $3.5 million," said district spokeswoman Jennifer Toomer-Cook. "Certainly any time we have cuts like this, a furlough -- it's a disruption for everyone, but again the criterion we try to do is to make this as minimally disruptive as possible."
It will disrupt salaries, not only of teachers but of support staff from the district superintendent down. Furlough days would be scheduled in September and November of 2010 and February and March of 2011.
To fill the rest of its budget gap, the district plans to move $4.5 million from its capital fund. It's also streamlined a literacy program that cut the number of full-time employees roughly in half. Toomer-Cook said nearly all of those employees were able to be placed elsewhere in the district.
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