...the state gave the district a lump sum and the district has to pick up extra costs, said Gary Epperson, district business manager. Epperson estimates eliminating the five bus routes would affect about 250 students. The parents' fears prompted...

...transportation. Now it will drop that request and ask for full local funding up to the new, higher cap, said district Business Manager Gary Epperson. Eric Fry contributed to this report.

...is the one highlighting the needs of the School District budget instead of the district finance director or district business manager, but I'm glad that the budget is up for discussion. While Mr. Mertz is shedding light on the woes of our...

...looking at closing a $200,000 gap in transportation costs next school year, consultant Zach Hanna, a former district business manager, told the Juneau School Board last week. He recommended that the School Board consider a mix of reducing the...

...of high-paid, experienced staff, who were replaced with lower-paid, less experienced teachers, said district Business Manager Gary Epperson. But Epperson also presented the board with very tentative budgets for the next two school years...

...worked as a high school business teacher and assistant coach for six years in California, then as a school district business manager in Idaho before moving to Juneau in 1979. He intended to get a teaching job here, he said, but ``the Juneau...

...year, which is fiscal 2006, also assumes the city will give local schools the most money the law allows, district Business Manager Gary Epperson told the Juneau School Board on Tuesday. Without the anticipated state and city funding increases...

...3 million. A second Budget Committee meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. today was postponed until Feb. 4. District Business Manager Zachary Hanna told the committee recently forecast increases in the costs of food service, electricity and...

...renovating the administrative building as a school and creating quarters elsewhere for administrators, said district Business Manager Gary Epperson. For now, the focus is on the Drake building, Cowan said. Of the 36 Yaakoos students recently...

...the plan when it knows what city and state money it will receive. "It's still early in the year," said district Business Manager Gary Epperson. "There's a lot of unanswered questions about revenue generation and other items." Even...