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from “waving a magic wand” to make salaries and fixed charges (relating to life insurance, retirement, social security and hospitalization) “appear and disappear to meet the purposes of the moment,” he said.
He claimed that the alleged reductions made by, the school board in response to the supervisors’ budget cuts are partially the result of excluding the school lunch funds. “There’s no accounting, no auditing and no budgeting of the school lunch funds," he claimed.
Further, said Eastham, the salary figure for school employees reported to the state department of education is $1,416,000, according to school records, while the “painless cut” given by the school board in response to the $189,100 budget reduction is based on salaries totalling "one million, two hundred and some thousand.”
He requested that approval of the county budget be delayed until Rappahannock accountant Wally Cox has an opportunity to verify figures for school expenditures.
Not To Placate
Louise Ellis countered that the school board’s action to absorb the budget cuts without reducing the 12.4 per cent raises or eliminating hospitalization benefits was not “something done to
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