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Cutting the school budget would place the county in double jeopardy, Norton warned. Not only would a budget cut further reduce funding below the S825 per child level established by the Legislature, but less local funds will also mean less state funds, he said.
Norton also asked the Supervisors for action on the school budget as soon as possible, so that the teachers needed to fill ten existing vacancies could be offered firm contracts. Although the School Board has sent out letters of appointment, agreements aren’t binding until a definite salary is established.
Luke told Norton that the Supervisors had not had time to go over the entire budget, since it had been received Thursday morning. However, he assured Norton that he anticipated only “minor adjustments” with no cuts in the salary scale.
The Board members had little comment on the proposed Chapter 10 budget presented by George Muth and Howard Leiberman, new executive director for mental health. According to Muth, the proposed Chapter 10 budget represents an increase of $464 in county funds over the last two years.
Lieberman told the Supervisors that he expects Chapter 10 to become more active in Rappahannock in the future. The mental health clinic currently operates a half day a week in Washington with a program serving 50 county citizens, he said. “Hopefully, it will be able to expand some,” Lieberman added. He noted' that a nutritional service was begun in 'the past year. “Services are actually rather limited in the county,” said Leiberman. He attributed this to infrequent requests for the service.
School Superintendent Norton informed the Board that psychiatric, psychological and speech therapy services were supplied totally or in part by Chapter 10.
The Supervisors had few questions for either Muth or Leiberman, but later in the meeting, during a lengthy executive session, a reported “majority vote” was taken authorizing Chairman Luke to write to Chapter 10 Mental Health and Retardation, protesting the way the nutritional program got started in the county.
Luke explained later that a majority of the Supervisors objected to funding for the weekly senior citizen nutrition program which appears in the county’s public assistance budget for this year.
During the past year, a nutrtion program, using no county money, was begun by the Area Agency. The county’s share of funding is supplied by donations from participants. In the Public Assistance budget for next year, the purchased services
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