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(Continued from Page 1) been endorsed as proposed, with $49,000.
The board approved addenda which cover vocation and special education programs funded with federal and state money as a separate category, but left the textbook rental receipts entirely out of the budget. Rental fees are used to purchase new textbooks but in order for the money to be spent by the School Board, it must first be appropriated by the supervisors. They agreed to take this action during the year at the request of the School Board. Initially, they considered including the $66,469 figure for rental receipts in the instructional category, but Supervisors Lane and Charles Estes pointed out that this would give the School Board greater flexibility in choosing where to absorb the budget cuts.
“The position we mean to have cut may not be cut,” Mr. Lane warned.
“Exactly,” added Mr. Estes.
“Inappropriate! Most innappropriate!” inteijected a tight-lipped superintendent of schools, shaking his head in disagreement. “You don’t have line item control,” Robert Estabrook reminded the board. “In my opinion, (the decision on where to take the budget reductions) is the prerogative of the School Board . . . You can cut the bottom line or by categories, but not by line items.”
“We’re not trying to dictate how much (money) should go into each line item,” countered Supervisor Estes. “We’re just trying to give you some rationale for why we’re doing this.”
“Don’t get us wrong. We’re not going by line items,” added Mr. Lane. ‘We’re just justifying the cuts we’ve made through the line items.”
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