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County Education Association on the agenda for discussion at the August meeting. Nancy Reeve asked if the index scale could be implemented in the coming year, working with the bottom line for salaries in the 1982-83 budget approved by the Rappahannock supervisors.
Contracts can’t be offered until a pay scale is established, Massie responded. noting that contracts should be offered as soon as possible so if they aren't accepted, the administration can begin immediately to secure replacement personnel. "We’d be doing a disservice, to the system if we delayed to put in an index pay scale for this year.”
Estabrook noted that he could work out an index pay scale for the coming year for teachers but that he would like to present an index scale for all school employees, “a far more monumental task.”
"Our supervisors felt good enough about what this board has done to cut the budget by only three percent,” Robert Eastham added, pointing out that the school budget proposed in neighboring Culpeper had been reduced 14 percent by the board of supervisors. "The supervisors took into account that this board
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