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selves that they’d heard of executive sessions for salary and personnel discussion, but never for school board budget salaries.
Luke said he’d asked the school board to take the responsibility for their budget and hold a public hearing on it, but they’d “thrown the ball back to the Supervisors” who’d sponsored that public meeting. So, since the school board budget was back in the Supervisors hands, they’d handle it, Luke said.
Jennings Hobson said “it was your responsibility to have the hearing, it’s not your responsibility to have an executive session.”
SO THE 'chool board members and, the rest of the audience left the courtroom, a bit dismayed and growing disgruntled. “Make the headline on this story 'School Board evicted,’ one school board member suggested during the wait.
Within seven minutes, Luke came downstairs to invite everybody back up. He announced that the Supervisors hadn’t made any salary cuts after all, but had decided to shift some expenditures to the revenue sharing category. Accountant Cox reminded the Supervisors that they shouldn’t depend too heavily on revenue sharing to take care of what might otherwise be a deficit. This was a federal program that might get cut off at any time, he said. “Then you’d get a jolt.”
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