CONWAY — Cut to the chase. That's the message the Conway School Board delivered to school superintendent Carl Nelson concerning the 2011-12 budget.
The board was scheduled to begin meeting next Monday with the elementary school principals to review their budgets, but that meeting has been deemed not necessary. The principals are expected to come in with a level-funded budget, and board members want to see the bottom line: the impact on the town's tax rate.
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