School superintendent Michael Byer offered his first draft budget to the Haines Borough School District Tuesday.
The $5.6 million spending plan Byer called “a first blush” and “moving target” includes a 3 percent increase in the borough’s contribution to the school general fund and an overall increase in spending of $230,000. It does not include money for a new teachers’ contract, currently under negotiation.
Haines Borough manager Mark Earnest has penciled in…

