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"Madam chairman, we can take a vote any time you wish,” Eastham countered. In past years, he said, the school board has “set about finding ways to spend” any extra money left at the end of the fiscal year.
The current board objects to this policy, he maintained. "We don’t go around looking for things to spend money on,” Eastham said. Any money left at the end of the year will revert to the general fund and can be used to make up the 10 center difference between the advertised tax rate and revenue needs, he added.
Cox interjected that any unspent funds in the school board’s current budget have already been figured into the surplus estimate.
By consensus, the supervisors dropped approximately $13,000 for special education equipment, musical instruments and underground gas tanks from the proposed budget, leaving $3,300 for emergency lighting and $4,715 for Title I in the capital outlay category.
Consultant Left In
Looking for another place to cut, Luke called attention to the $18,000 appropriation for other contractual services—$5,000 for the school board’s expert Harrisonburg attorney, $7,000 for the services of an educational consultant and $6,000 for Title I.
Eastham interjected that the school board had approved only $12,000 for
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