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■six percent is wnai people are talking about in other localities," said Latham.
"Workers at a lot of big manufacturing plants and organizations are taking a cut in pay," supervisor Clarence Baldwin added. He reported that employees at a firm in nearby Centreville who had been laid off agreed to come back to work recently at $1.50 less per hour in salary.
“How do we justify 8.5 percent when tfie state is giving four percent?" noted Charles Estes, asking the school board chairman for her reaction to a six percent pay raise for school personnel.
"It’s certainly not a popular position for me to support but I understand where you're coming from,” Massie replied. Voicing her respect for the members of the board of supervisors, she acknowledged their concern for education. “I know you’re not going to be putting heavy-handed pressure on the school board to achieve results at the ballot box," she said. But at the same time, Massie stressed the importance of supporting the county’s educational system: “These are the citizens who are going to do the voting in the years ahead and if we
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