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the new food stamp program. We didn’t agree. We thought the same number of people working more efficiently could handle it. Or the same number of different people. So we cut that request, too.”
“THE LIBRARY says they’ve got to have $2,000 more just to operate Chapter 10 mental health says they need more too. But we cut them both to what they were,” Luke said. “But looking back at the schools, it would be better in the future if capital improvements could be laid out with some priority— not just a mobile classroom this year, a roof over the vocational place this month,” Luke said. “Give us an idea of the overall plan.”
“We don’t want to get in the business of running the schools. That’s your job and we don’t want to tell you how to do it,” Luke continued. “But we do need the information. Perhaps we should set up some sort of a liason.”
School Superintendent O.A. Norton said the school board “appreciated” the Supervisors comments on closer co-ordination. “But we would like to see some restoration of the $48,200 cut. We’d like to get at least $12,200 more for instruction, to hire a ‘physed’ and health teacher for the elementary school and a portion for salary increases. If we get behind our neighbors, we’ll have to play catch up. We had to do that before.”
“We’re also crowded. We use the cafeteria during all periods except the lunch hour. We use the gym at the high school for music classes. And physed and music are not the most compatible neighbors,” Norton said.
“WE KNOW that the number of students in the high school will increase during the next five years and then stabilize,” he added, noting that “we don’t
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