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Mr. Massie said the supervisors had tried to consider the priorities set by Superintendent David Gangel when dealing with the budget. On the new instructional objectives the supervisors recommended no cuts. Thev approved eight percent raises tor teachers and administrators, but recommended other raises be held to five percent in line with other raises in the state, and on benefits they had recommended an increase to $1,000 per employee for health insurance. “1 would support a bottom line appropriation," he said.
Stonewall-Hawthorn District representative Robert Anderson said, "I would support a bottom-line cut too. and let Dr. Gangel cut where he sees fit."
Supervisor Chairman Hubert Gilkey said, “1 also wall go along with a bottom line figure. It's a tough year for us. Tax dollars are a priority."
The supervisors next moved to con-ddering the proposed swap of the County Library for the Town Hall. "As far as I know the town still wants the library." County Administrator John McCarthy said. "The town is discussing with the Historical Society ways for them to make use of the building, but that’s not part of what is involved in the sale of the library and town Hall."
The town has agreed to pay $150,000 for the library, and the Library Board needs the money by July 1 to qualify for Federal funds, Mr. McCarthy said. The county would not purchase the Town Hall until the next fiscal year. Now. he said, the town is looking for a better than three for two swap “because they say the county is enjoying the use of the money for a year, but I'd understood that was part of the deal. ”
Another consideration still to be resolved concerns the dead end of Jett St. which runs between the Town
See BUDGET, p. 15
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