Dougherty County School System's finance director says they're ready for sequestration
by The Albany Herald
Feb 28, 2013 | 953 views | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend | print
ALBANY, Ga. -- With $85 billion in across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as a sequester, set to take place Friday, Dougherty County School System Executive Director of Finance and Operations Ken Dyer says the district has a plan in place to help weather potential federal funding cuts.

"Where we will feel the effects of sequestration will be in our federal Title I funding, possibly $800,000 in federal funding," Dyer said. "But in anticipation, we set aside nearly $700,000 earlier in the event it happened."

Dyer said the system has enough in reserves to get by in the short-term, but if the budget dispute between the White House and Congress drags on, some programs could be affected.

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