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the 1979-80 budget and were available for transfer to cover the deficits referred to by Eastham. In asking for the authorization to carry over the unexpended funds, Mrs. Massie recalled, it was the school board’s aim to use the money for maintenance projects. She noted that the unspent money would have been returned to the county’s general fund without authorization for carry-over from the supervisors.
"We’re prudent. We save money for the taxpayers and then, dammit, we turn right around and spend it all,” Eastham countered. He argued that the left-over funds ffrom 1978-79 should have been returned to the general fund.
Eastham also criticized the “capricious” transfer of funds from one line item to another within the budget. He claimed that the board of supervisors had approved the school budget on the basis of expenditures listed in specific line items.
Mrs. Massie took exception to Eastham’s remarks, maintaining that the school board was "fiscally responsible” in all its decisions. She agreed, however, that the administration should get specific authorization from the board before transferring funds from category to category.
In response to Eastham’s questions on funds paid to Piedmont, Mrs. Massie explained that it was a regional vocational technical school, serving Rappahannock students as well as pupils from four other
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