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have to contribute at least 80 percent.
In addition, Rappahannock has never contributed anything towards the additional cost for employees who elect to have family members covered also. The draft proposal would require that the employer contribute 10 percent of that additional premium next year, and that percentage would also increase 10 percent per year until 1994-95, when it would be at least 50 percent.
Dr. Gangel had more bad news on the financial front for the board. The “Orangeburg pipe,” which is the main sewer pipe coming out of the • high school, may have been damaged during the construction project, he said. It has been getting plugged up more and more frequently, he said.
He told the board members that each time the school has to get someone to come and unplug it, it costs $100 to $150. The last time it was almost impossible to get the “snake” through, he said. He said he had gotten one estimate of $3,500 to replace it. “There is $100 for unanticipated maintenance in the budget,, and it is already committed,” he said. “We have to replace it, and there are no funds to do it.”
“If we’ve got to do it, let’s get it done before the ground freezes.” Mrs. Massie suggested. Dr. Gangel said he would seek further estimates.
The good news was in instruction. “Fine things have been happening,” Dr. Gangel said. He noted that many teachers had taken a class to learn how to work the computers at both schools; three teachers had been selected to present talks about
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