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on a marginal operation?” he asked. “If there’s a critical failure in the middle of the year will we have to shut the school down?”
Bloomer answered that there had been difficulty in meeting guidelines for effluent from the lagoon last year. This year, he said, effluent is “slightly under” the maximum allowed for suspended solids and BOD (biological oxygen demand).
Mrs. Massie interjected that the school board would make adjustments and find funds for upgrading the system within the proposed budget, should problems arise.
“You don’t have $8,000 slop you can put on this,” Luke countered.
Mrs. Massie repeated that the board would find the money if necessary, without coming back to the supervisors for an additional appropriation.
In response to a question from Col. Luke, Bloomer explained that a reduction in ,a transportation service costs in the proposed budget for gasoline, oil, lubricants, repairs, tires, parts and supplies reflected the absence of a summer school program. Transportation for summer school caused the higher amount in the current budget, he explained, adding that any classes this summer would be funded through Title I.
Luke also questioned the $25,320 item in the proposed budget for school heating fuel—the same amount as in the current budget. "I’ll be damned if I can see how you’re going to run the schools for the same amount as you did last year with the increases in fuel prices,” he said.
“We have to operate with the figures that are brought to us," Mrs. Massie responded. She added that conservation programs, including lowered thermostats and a new maintenance contract, should reduce the amount of fuel needed.
(The budget recommended by the superintendent included an additional $1,180 for anticipated rises in the cost of fuel oil and coal. The school board cut the cushion against cost increases from the budget forwarded to the supervisors.)
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