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hundred thousand (from the general fund surplus) to balance the budget,” he told the supervisors. The surplus is “a couple of hundred thousand higher than it was a year ago. Unless you need the money for something I don’t know about — a landfill or sludge disposal — you could draw it down.”

Of the $200,000 imbalance, the school budget as submitted to the supervisors accounts for $140,000, said Mr. Cox.

With a penny on the rate generating $22,000, to meet requested expenditures without ftirther budget cuts would take a tax increase of nine cents, he noted.

The supervisors will get copies of the preliminary county budget and hold a full blown work session with Mr. Cox on Wednesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the basement of the clerk’s office.

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