Kanaby then said that he supported the Rappahannock Education

Kanaby then said that he supported the Rappahannock Education Association’s request for an 18 percent increase in teachers’ salaries, and he asked for a show of hands from those in the audience who also supported that request. The majority raised their hands. “I think that Rappahannock County has spoken,” Kanaby said.

Sharon Kilpatrick first urged the Board members to have new math textbooks for the high school included as a priority item in the budget. She then voiced her concern about the difference between teachers’ salaries and the administration’s salaries.

“I would like to see us get started this year on catching up our teachers’ salaries with the salaries of surrounding counties,” Kilpatrick said. “It will be harder next year to catch up.”

Frank Reynolds, president of the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community, spoke to the Board about giving consideration to the arts programs in the schools when formulating the budget. He described the various programs that RAAC has sponsored for the schools. “We have had a good relationship with the system, and we hope that it will grow,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds then said that it would be important for the Board to remember the arts when designing the budget, and he cautioned the Board against depending on RAAC to provide arts programs for the schools. “The schools must provide for their own arts programs,” Reynolds said. “It would be better if there were a formal arts program in the schools that RAAC could work with, and that must be provided for in the budget.”

Reynolds then spoke as a parent. “I feel strongly that the School Board should be the spokesmen to the Board of Supervisors on what is needed to make the schools superior, not just standard,” Reynolds said. “We should have the best we can get, and we

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