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School Board Chairman Beverly Massie. “The money comes as educational funds; it’s labeled educational funds. But we’re not able to use it as educational funds. It has to be returned to the county treasurer.
“I feel I’m about as conservative as you’ll find,” Mrs. Massie continued. “I don’t believe in spending money for the sake of spending money.”
Referring to the expenditures approved at the pay-out session, she acknowledged that critics will insist that all the money should have been returned to the general fund. “But if you don’t keep up the buildings . . . you cannot run an effective school system.”
Of the $45,825 from the state earmarked for education that will go instead to the general fund, Mrs. Massie said:“I feel very badly for the children because we’re not able to use those funds...Therefore, I’d like the School Board to give serious thought in the years to come to asking the supervisors to put aside this money to be used for school needs...for educational purposes,” the chairman concluded.
Assurances from the supervisors that state money allocated for education could be carried over into the next fiscal year and spent for education would “give the School Board credibility, too,” Mrs. Massie noted. “Then we wouldn’t have to schedule a pay-out meeting just to spend left over money.” Even though the expenses are valid and necessary, she said, the process may create an erroneous, unfavorable impression with the public.
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