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North Syracuse School District administrators started with a $15 million shortfall. Ten budget meetings and almost three months later, they settled on a budget recommendation for 2012. Nobody said it would be pleasant. Amid decreasing state aid, the North Syracuse School District is raising taxes 5.2 percent and removing 45 staff in 2012. Around 20 people attended the North Syracuse School District public hearing for the budget Tuesday, May 3rd at 7p.m. in the Jerome F. Melvin Administrative office off West Taft Road to discuss changes in the 2012 budget. Since the 2008 recession, the district has lost nearly $20 million in state aid, forcing administrators to cut approximately 200 positions in the last three years. This year, the district lost $7.2 million in aid, following an $8.9 million cut the year before. Though the state spared the
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