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We flinched along with the School Board last year when the county supervisors slashed the request for educational funds by $116,830. It meant that our public schools would have $28,333 less to operate with in 1983-84 than they did in 1982-83.
But the county’s taxpayers were facing a 81 percent hike in the real estate levy if expenditures weren’t reduced somewhere and, as usual, it wa> the schools that had to bear the burden of relief.
And if the Board of Supervisors’ action didn’t make things bad enough, the loss of a legal battle, high electrical bills and underestimates from consultants on insurance costs left school administrators with another $35,000 shortfall to absorb in that already strained budget.
Compensation — at least partly — has come where it hurts the most. The budget for instructional supplies at the elementary school was cut in September from $22,000 to $17,500; the amount of paper and duplicating materials supplied to the school reduced by one-third.
Presumably, the supervisors made last year’s $116,830 school budget cut to lessen the amount of county funds required for educational programs. Their efforts have been unexpectedly augmented by increased state revenue.
Superintendent Robert Estabrook doesn’t know exactly how much more the county will receive from the
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