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butions for education have left the schools “in an awful bind.” He encouraged the board to explore alternative revenue sources, describing the local property tax as not only inequitable but lacking “sufficient growth potential” to provide sufficient funds for education.
Mr. Miller said that the county must learn to operate within local restraints, adding, “We have no control over state and federal mandates.”
Repeating that the capital improvements program at the high school will up the tax rate by 7 percent, he maintained this will “further strain teachers’ salaries ... 1 don’t think structures teach much and neither do a large number of teachers.”
To the superintendent’s assertion that teaching staff can’t be reduced, Mr. Miller said: “I think I would make it work if I was in your position.”
Reviewing the proposed budget by categories, the supervisors cut just $11,000, indicating that they intended raises for administrators to be held to $1,000 apiece and that they wanted the $2,000 allocated for the School Board’s contribution to the seventh grade’s Williamsburg trip to be dropped.
Early in the meeting, Superintendent Estabrook explained that the 1986-87 school budget doesn’t include funds for the high school’s expansion because the construction project will be carried as a county
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