CONWAY — Voters restored $2.2 million to the school district’s proposed 2025-26 operating budget at the school deliberative session Wednesday in the Loynd Auditorium at Kennett High School.
It was a member of the very panel, the Conway Municipal Budget Committee, that had recommended the cut three weeks earlier, who made the motion to return the budget to the figure the school board brought forward.
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