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should be spent for education,” not carried over to meet general revenue needs, she maintained. At the very least, Mrs. Massie said, the Board of Supervisors should keep that end-of-fiscal-year revenue separate and apply that to the following year’s local share of the school budget BEFORE figuring how many “new” tax dollars will be required. That would give a fairer, more accurate picture of the school budget’s impact on the tax rate, according to the School Board chairman.
There were indications at Monday’s work session of where besides salaries that the board may look to cuts the proposed budget.
Supervisor Nelson Lane posed the possibility of a teaching staff reduction in light of the decline in enrollment, and Supervisor Estes asked for an explanation of the duties attendant to the central office’s third administrative position, that of special services supervisor, a post established four years ago.
And there was a clue as to where they won’t cut. Mr. McCarthy asked assistant superintendent Tom Campbell if he’d obtained additional information on refurbishing older school buses, an option the School Board was investigating as an alternative to buying two new buses next year. “Personally, I don’t think refurbishing buses is economical,” Mr. Campbell replied to Supervisor Estes’ request for his opinion.
“I also wonder what it would do to our insurance rates,” Mrs. Massie added.
“There’s no way you can recondition an old bus and have it be comparable to a new bus,” Supervisor Estes agreed.
At the close of a wide ranging discussion of the operational budget and the high school expansion project, Mr. Estes asked again for suggestions on where proposed school expenditures could be trimmed. “I haven’t heard any recommendation yet.”
“How much are you going to cut?” countered the superintendent. “We don’t want to give you the whole house when you only need the frontdoor.”
Then it was the supervisors’ turn to hesitate, as Mr. Estes pointed out that all revenue needs have not yet been compiled. But the increase in the local share of the proposed school budget will take an additional 16 cents on the real estate tax rate, he noted. “I don’t mean to slight education, but cents are what we’re really going to have to look at,” the Piedmont District supervisor concluded.
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