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negotiate it,” he said.
During the meeting, Supervisor Lane, echoing his statement at the public hearing April 29, called upon School Superintendent Robert Estabrook to determine how the school system can do better with less money. Lane said it would be irresponsible not to ask that of Estabrook.
Estabrook responded as he did at the public hearing. “There is no room to cut....I would be irresponsible if I proposed further cuts.” In a phone interview after the meeting, Estabrook said only that he was disappointed by the supervisors’ decision.
Bomberger also was disappointed. Referring to the $120,000 cut, he said “There is no way I can see that the school board can supply teachers with a salary that is responsible with respect to surrounding counties. I'm very disappointed,” he said. In response to Lane’s insistance that “more be done with less,” Bomberger replied that that had already been tried - unsuccessfully.
In defense, Lane reiterated his point, first heard at the April 29 public hearing, that if teachers’ salaries are to be raised, then the budget will have to shrink elsewhere to pay for the increase. Said Lane: “We can’t raise salaries just by raising taxes.” Lane likened the school system to a private business, arguing that expansion in one area must come at the expense of shrunken overhead in another area.
School Board Chairman Beverly Massie, in response to Lane’s statements, claimed it was unfair to compare the school system to a private business. There is an important difference, she said, in that the school system is burdened by federal and state mandates.
The denunciation of “burdensome” state and federally mandated programs became the one point of agreement among the administrators and supervi
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