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Money And Cost
The School Board must feel very restricted by what they feel the Supervisors will approve, maintained Ron Wiley. Money and cost have been looked at instead of needs, he charged, recommending that the School Board reconsider the proposed budget.
Acknowledging that deadline for submitting the budget to the Supervisors was April 1, Jennings Hobson suggested that action be delayed to allow for consideration of the “very serious concerns” expressed at the meeting.
Sean Kilpatrick was the last citizen to address the Board. “It’s time to stop being polite and circumspect,” announced Kilpatrick. “This is not a tentative budget. This is not a proposed budget. This is it except for a few fudged bucks here and there. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it.” He questioned why a tentative budget couldn’t have been presented by the Superintendent, in time to allow for consideration of public comment, as it is done in other counties throughout Virginia.
"This hasn’t been done here in Rappahannock," he continued. “Why can’t things be done in the open here? Why wasn’t this meeting held two or three weeks ago?” he asked. There’s no time now for setting priorities on what the School Board is going to approach the Supervisors with, Kilpatrick said, describing the County’s governing body as “Mr. Luke
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