Slowly toiling away, looking at proposed cuts from every angle imaginable, the Reading School Board inched closer and closer to its members’ goal: a balanced budget they can live with.
Following the board’s voting meeting Wednesday night, members stuck around to pick through the administration’s latest proposed 2013-14 spending plan.
They reviewed a list of 18 cuts one by one, taking straw polls to find out which ones have support and which ones don’t.
And, with two days before they plan to vote on a final budget, they appeared to have finally made some big decisions.