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said. “I think you’re worth twice what you’re getting, but we can’t afford that.”
“Could you live with five percent increases to administrative salaries?" Mr. McCarthy asked.
“No,” Dr. Gangel replied. He said that when the school system recruits teachers or administrators it has to compete with salaries offered along the entire East Coast. “We’re near the bottom now,” he said. He conceded that some of Rappahannock’s salaries for classified employees are comparable to those in surrounding counties, however.
Though the board wielded a sharp knife in some of the categories of the school budget, the supervisors seemed quite happy with Dr. Gangel’s willingness to sit at the table and deal with them. “Other superintendents we have had would not have been willing to do that,” Piedmont District representative Charles K. “Pete” Estes said.
After the meeting Mr. Estes said he would favor approving the school budget this year by adopting only the bottom line, rather than adopting by category, and letting the superintendent and School Board make the cuts. “I never thought I’d say that after the last time we adopted by bottom line,” he said. “But that’s the confidence I feel in him.”
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