enough to sell, period,” Beverly Massie said. “If we

enough to sell, period,” Beverly Massie said. “If we start trying to change it now, credibility will be lost.”

‘‘Well, we can’t resolve this thing here tonight,” Kilby said. “And I’m not in favor of changing it for this year.”

Mary Kay Moose said that, as far as she knew, the Supervisors have “no legal right to tell the school board what kind of salary scale to approve.” They were only concerned with the final figure, she said.

“They may not have a legal right,” O.A. Norton said. “But they have a political right.”

“THEY LOOK at the budget in terms of dollars, but they’re also going to look at us,” Kilby said, stating again that he had no intention of changing the salary scale. “But I’m certainly not interested in having the teachers dissatisfied,” Kilby added.

Later in the meeting, the school board members discussed the special meeting on the school budget scheduled for April 22, at 8 p.m. at the court house. Beverly Massie said she thought it was important for people to understand how the school board budget is funded. Some people don’t realize that it doesn’t all come from county sources. Mrs. Massie suggested that the school board prepare a poster “with a pie shape to explain just what size slice” each source of funds provides. Other school board members agreed with that suggestion and another idea of Mrs. Massie’s, to make sure that everyone who comes to the meeting gets a copy of the budget, so they can understand the discussion and ask questions.

Irvin Kilby said that the Supervisors had asked for some indication of “priorities” within the budget, especially for capital improvements. He and Norton noted that the school board will have to build a new school bus garage, since the current one has been condemned for highway works; new administrative offices must be found and furnished, since Rappa