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The cuts approved so far in the school budget are $6,000 from administration, $16,000 from instruction, $7,000 from fixed charges, $28,000 from operation and maintenance of the school plants, $91,500 from capital outlay and $544 from the cafeteria fund.
In the administration category half of a $2,000 request for tuition assistance for administrators was cut, and $5,000 was removed from the appropriation for legal fees. Supervisor Chairman Hubert Gilkey said the School Board could come back to the supervisors if legal fees got out of hand. "Either way the county is going to pay for it,” he said. “I’m looking for ways to save money."
When the supervisors moved to the instruction category, Mr. McCarthy said, “I hate to get into this; it's so big. Can you get $18,000 out of it?”
School Superintendant David Gangel, who stayed throughout this work session, said, "I went through this over the weekend, and I got $16,000 that could be cut."
“That’s the number I’ve got here actually." Mr. McCarthy replied.
The $7,000 cut from fixed charges was for health insurance. Mr. McCarthy originally suggested this category be reduced by $10,000, which he said would allow the school system to contribute $955 per employee to health insurance. He said he was recommending $1,300 per county employee. “It's hard for me to discuss treating the two groups differently, but the county can’t accept the dramatic increase in prices we’ve been getting," he said.
“All the big companies are cutting back on benefits," Stonewall-Hawthorn District representative Robert Anderson said.
“The government has to take the lead to encourage private industry to provide health insurance,” Hampton
See BUDGET, p. 14
65.5%