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stressing tnat ne was referring to general school operations only, not to any capital improvements program.
Eastham countered that last year, the supervisors restated their intention to keep control over categorical expenditures in the school budget, requiring the school board to come to them for approval before transferring funds between categories. "Then why didn’t you do it this year?” he demanded. “If you had wanted to cut out hospitalization, you could have done it just like that,” he said, snapping his fingers. “You could have cut fixed charges by $42,000 and knocked the 12.4 per cent to 10 per cent (for salary increases),” he said.
Instead, by lowering only the bottom line of the budget, the supervisors allowed the school board to absorb the reduction partially through elimination of one new school bus, cutting “a direct service to my beloved school children,” Eastham
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