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and then I get my toes stepped on or my feelings hurt and I go home to stick my head in the sand,” Baines said. “You can only be pushed down so many times.”
Lucia Kilby has been the elementary school librarian for 25 years. She is also married to a farmer in Rappahannock, so she sees both sides of the budget issue.
“Anytime you have cuts in salary or benefits you will have morale affected, and you generally have to have more money to do more,” Kilby said. “I don’t know where the money is going to come from, though, because the farmers aren’t making that much either and they can’t shoulder the burden like they have to with real estate taxes.”
She said that alternate sources of revenue for the county need to be found. “There has to be some other way of funding education,” Kilby said. “I’d like to be paid more, but it cannot be totally funded by the real estate tax.”
Assistant Superintendent Campbell said that the cuts in the school budget will have an impact, but that the budget is a workable one. “Our job here is to take the budget and do as well as we can with it,” Campbell said. “There are things to feel good about in the budget, like the 11 percent increase to teachers’ salaries pretty much across the board.
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