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$25 from sewage disposal to contracted maintenance services.
Bloomer reported that $1,000 wasx required to cover deficits in operation of service vehicles, the line item under transportation that pays for the unleaded gas in school cars, including behicles assigned to the administration. In the - current budget, $500 was allocated for this line item.
“This fuel thing is going to be a problem with the budget throughout the year,” interjed board member Charles Eldred.
“Where are we going to pick up $1,000 from?” asked Robert Eastham.
“To be perfectly honest, I’m, not sure,” Bloomer replied.
Ballet Exercise
Transfering money back and forth within the budget “is going to become an exercise in ballet before the year’s out,” Eastham responded.
In the past, said Bloomer, the administration has transferred funds when needed throughout the year, moving money between categories as adjustments were within the operational portion of the budget and didn’t exceed the total allocated for operations by the board of supervisors.
Without his retaining authority to re-allocate funds as necessary within the operational budget. Bloomer predicted that the board will have to spend befween $70,000 and $90,000 at its year-end “pay-out” meeting in order to meet per pupil expenditures set by the state.
Board chairman Beverly Massie agreed that the superintendent should have authority to transfer funds between line items in a category but not BETWEEN categories without prior approval from the board. In the event of transfers within a category, the board should be informed of the action as its next meeting, Mrs. Massie added. Transfers from one category to another should continue to require prior board authorization, she said. . *
“When this budget was put to bed, it wasn’t put to bed properly,” Eastham said. He described a budget as “a control mechanism for expenditures” and maintained that allocations for line items must be accurate, must meet realistic needs. Eastham emphasized that he wasn’t arguing with the amount of money set aside for specific line items, that he just wanted allocations to be accurate. Transferring of funds back and forth shouldn’t happen, he said. In preparing future budgets, he maintained, the school board should base allocations on realistic needs and then should hold the administration to the amount budgetd for line items.
By developing a realistic budget, Mrs. Massie said, the school board can avoid having to pay out large sums of money at its final meeting of the fiscal year. The only money that will have to be spent at the pay-out meeting, she said, should be extra sales tax revenue and
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