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It took a few nips and tucks but the Abbotsford school district budget, approved Tuesday night, managed to cover the $5 million dollar shortfall.

Board chair Cindy Schafer says they increased bus fees, closed the district print shot, and found a few other efficiencies.

“The most significant part of all that was that none of this had to do with our school allocations. So at schools were not negatively impacted at all.”

Tthe district ended up pulling a little over $2 million from the accumulated surplus, most of which was already planned for to fund programs.