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$17,000 Per Percent
Cox figured that each percentage point cut from the proposed pay raise for all school personnel plus ,the accompanying deduction in fixed charges for life insurance. social security, etc., will work out to 3 drop of $17,000 from the school budget.
Eliminating the new position of special services director will cut an additional $20,000. Gilkey added.
The new administrator will oversee special education services, "a very sensitive subject, one that’s embroiled in all kinds of legal complications,” Massie replied. “One misstep in that area could cost us more money than the salary for that position."
"You're sitting between a rock and a hard place,” Eastham told the supervisors, acknowledging the dilemma they faced in accepting a school budget that will require a substantial tax increase. "If you’re not going to accept the budget, then I think you should send it back to the drawing board,” Eastham said, so the school board can make adjustments within the total the supervisors are willing to appropriate for education.
RIFs Proposed
"I want some riffing done in this school system!" Eastham announced, pointing to declining enrollment in Rappahannock’s public schools as justificatigp. Average daily
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