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Lincoln Community High School Proud of FY13 Balanced Budget

Despite the tough economic times, one local school district can say they will have a balanced budget for this year.

 width=Lincoln Community High School will have a balanced budget for this current fiscal year. Superintendent of Lincoln High School, Robert Bagby explains they have had to work harder to make that happen because the state has cut close to a million dollars from their revenues over the past several years. He feels working hard to balance a budget is becoming the norm, not just in school districts, but households across the state.

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A select number of school districts are fortunate enough to not have to rely heavily on Illinois for their main source of revenue. Lincoln High School is not one of those districts, and yet they are still able to balance a budget. What may be more impressive about that, according to Bagby, the district has maintained their property tax rate now, for almost 20 years now.

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To maintain a balanced budget despite a million dollars in State funding cuts, Lincoln High School could not have maintained the spending levels they had. Bagby explains they did not cut any programs, but instead cut administrators and a few teachers. He notes however, those cuts were more a result of declining enrollments than anything else.

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Bagby says, like most school boards, the Lincoln Community High School Board of Education prides themselves on being accountable to the tax payers for their portion of their tax bill.

For diligent book keepers, Bagby notes tax payers can look back to their tax bills from 1996 and see the property tax rate, not the total amount because the property would be worth more, but the rate would be same as it is today.

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