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Despite officials` contentions that they are desperately in need of a computer lab for Waukegan High School, board members of Unit District 60 narrowly voted down the proposal Tuesday, citing budgetary concerns.
School Supt. Alan Brown had proposed using $35,000 from a $60,000 trust fund to open a computer lab. The proposal would have given the math department, which currently shares a lab with the foreign language department, its own lab.
But some board members, wary of a possible $2.1 million budget deficit next year, could not justify the expense with program cuts on the horizon.
”It seems like a very worthy project,” board member Jack Mallory said at Tuesday`s meeting, ”but we have a budget crisis next year.”
