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(Continued from Page 1) includes an increase in the services of the school psychologist from two days to two and a half days per week and additional services from the mental health clinic with the $5,000 cost covered by federal funds available for expansion of special education programs.

On transportation services. Bloomer projected $78,800 for gasoline, oil and lubricants, basing the figure on anticipated gas costs of $1.80 a gallon. Asked how he arrived at that estimate, the superintendent joked, "I gazed into a crystal ball!”

To maintain the school board's approved ten year rotation cycle for school buses. Bloomer included two regular buses at $21,300 each, in the 1981-82 budget. He added an additional $21,300 for a handicapped vehicle necessary to carry a Five-year-old boy in a wheelchair to and from school. The vehicle can also be used to transport two special education students to Culpeper on a dally' basWIbf classes, according to assistant superintendent Rob McDaniel.

Hospitalization

For the first time, the category of fixed charges includes a proposal to pay single person coverage for hospitalization for all 120 school employees at a cost of $54,000. In addition. Bloomer proposed that bus drivers be covered under the school’s retirement program at a cost of $4,054 as well as

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