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GCC trustees approve budget

By TOM STANKARD

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IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees approved the college's 2016-17 budget Tuesday evening.

GCC Dean on Business Services Erik Guenard said the college's 2016-17 general fund budget "reflects a very modest increase of less than 1 percent in expenditures, and about a .4 percent increase in revenues."

"This reflects an approximate 2 percent increase in enrollment that we experienced this fall, a slight increase in state aid and the efforts of all staff to hold the line on spending," he said.

In the college's general fund, total b...