The Haines school board reviewed a “bleak” 2018 budget draft for the first time at a workshop Tuesday.
Next year’s budget appears to be about $487,000 in the hole, including a $370,000 anticipated reduction in state funding, said school board president Anne Marie Palmieri.
The district will save about $100,000 through the retirement of assistant principal and curriculum coordinator Cheryl Stickler, who will retire at the end of this school year.
“I have submitted a…