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Dr. David Gangel was back before the supervisors again this month to ask for another supplemental appropriation to the school budget, and again the new superintendent got what he wanted: $46,690 to complete the expansion of Rappahannock County High School.
When bids were opened earlier this year for the capital outlay project, the low bid was $168,000 over the $1.5 million of the state literary loan awarded for the work. Negotiations with the contractor uncovered an unnecessary expense of an upgraded sewage disposal system designed for 546 when the actual RCHS enrollment was just over 350; that correction reduced the shortfall by about $122,000.
Missing just $46,000 plus the cost of fixed furnishings (ineligible for lit*' erary loan coverage), the School Boartl signed the construction contract, anticipating the deficit would be made up by private donations or some other source.
That “other source” will be the State Department of Education, assuming that higher-than-expected enrollment holds steady through March, when Richmond takes its reading on average daily membership (ADM) to determine Rappahannock’s multiplier for per-pupil basic aid.
Dr. Gangel told the supervisors on Monday that the downward enrollment spiral of Rappahannock’s public schools has ended; the two schools now show a growth rate of between one and two percent coming “across the board” but heaviest in the lower elementary grades. “Enrollment is up for the first time in 10 years,” he said.
With the current school budget based on an ADM of 881 and with that figure at 940 in November, it means more money for the county, he explained. Using the variances in the last decade between November’s
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