BUTLER TWP — On Day 105 of the state’s budget impasse, Butler Area School District superintendent Brian White summarized his update to the board Monday, Oct. 13, as “no progress, no updates, and a lot of frustrations.”

“It’s almost laughable, you may also want to cry, that the state budget has not passed,” White said. “We have no idea what the holdup is.”

White said the district is about two weeks away from starting the process of taking out a tax anticipation note. He said this would take about six weeks to get fully approved and set up.

Up to this point, Butler and Karns City are the two school districts in Butler County who have openly said they may take out a loan. At board meetings in other districts, superintendents have openly said a prolonged impasse could create budget problems

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