CONWAY — School officials met with the Conway Municipal Budget Committee last week for the first time since budgeteers voted 12-0 on Jan. 22 to ask the Conway School Board to look at trimming $2 million from its proposed 2024-25 operating budget.
The board presented a proposed operating budget of $40,109,103 to the budget committee in late December.
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