Berne-Knox-Westerlo is looking at a roughly $700,000 shortfall in its 2025-26 budget despite a 3.3 percent property-tax hike, due to widespread cost increases and decreases in state aid. The gap will have to be closed through “creative” reductions, Superintendent Bonnie Kane said.
The United States Department of Agriculture withdrew two programs totaling $1 billion that allowed food pantries and schools to purchase locally-sourced food, prompting some in The Enterprise coverage area to wonder if local institutions had lost any funding.
There will be four seats open for the May 20 election with the top three vote-getters winning three-year terms and the fourth-place candidate filling out Judy Slack’s term, which ran through June 30, 2026.
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