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rooms and remodeling existing space to provide for an expanded cafeteria, library, bathroom facilities and storage. The $21,000 in the proposed 1983-84 budget would carry those plans to the point of generating specifications for contractors’ bids.
“Whatever you decision, I hope we will be able to have a continuing discussion (on a high school building program) between the school board and the supervisors,” Estabrook emphasized. He pointed out to the supervisors that converting the existing gymnasium to classrooms is a cheaper alternative for providing additional space than adding on new classrooms.
Budget Review
The superintendent reviewed the 1983-84 school budget line-by-line for the supervisors. He described the $2,5<>4,862 contemplated expenditures for education — up $88,497 or three percent from the current year — as "an attemDt to find a reasonable balance between fiscal reality and our needs.”
The major items covered in the review included:
—seven percent salary increase for administrative and non-teaching staff,
—an approximate seven percent increase for teachers under a new index pay plan that “stretches out. elongates the distribution system" and provides “increased pay for increased service and advanced degrees,”
72.6%