What looked a few months ago to be a $250,000 deficit in the Haines Borough School District budget is no more.
The district’s first draft budget included some erroneous figures, so the actual hole was about $135,000, superintendent Michael Byer said this week. Eliminating one teaching position left the district with a $25,000 gap last month. Recent appropriations by the Alaska Legislature will fill the gap and leave the district about $40,000 in the black,…