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With $38K cut,
school budge"!
wins approvalX
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Kappahunmxk Staff \\ rilt-r
An additional $.’1n.<29 was cut from next year’s school budget before it was approved at Monday's regular meeting of the Board of Supervisor.--. This represents an additional 1.1 cents off the real estate tax rate, which is now just unejer 70 cents per $10o of a.-.-e.-sed value.
The supervisors recommended that the cuts come from reducing the raises for classified employees from eight to five percent for a $1.7.000 -a' me.-, a reduction in the appropriation for the cafeteria fund of'$22,000 and another $1,729 which was a consequence of earlier cuts.
On a motion by Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham and seconded by Hampton District representative Mike Massie, the board then approved an appropriation for the schools of $4,22t\dH2. thus passing the school budget by the bottom line rather than by category.
Col. Bingham said he had checked with the Virginia Employment Commission and “m the area of classified salaries we are very competitive." He said a new studyshows that Virginia as a state is near the bottom in the nation in scores on SAT tests.
"We’re trying to do the best we can, and we’re on the right track,” he said. “I expect to see additional emphasis coming out of the nation’s capital. The technology race is moving so fast, and people are so mobile in our country, we can t emphasize education enough. If we don’t, we re condemning the younger generation to economic slavery. But this is realistic when you look at the whole picture."'
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