Budget preparations are underway in Mathews County Public Schools. A work session will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Mathews High School media center, followed by the regular monthly meeting. The following Tuesday, Jan. 28, the school board will hold a public hearing its proposed 2020-2021 budget, beginning at 6 p.m., with another budget work session to follow. On Tuesday, Feb. 4, school board members and supervisors will sit down for a dinner and joint budget work session at the Thomas Hunter Middle School library. The dinner begins at 5 p.m., with the work session starting at 6 o’clock. The school board is expected to adopt its 2020-2021 budget during the board’s Feb. 18 monthly meeting, with the budget request delivered to the Mathews County Administrator on Friday, Feb. 21.
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