aiso or. Lrangei is oniy asiung for one replacement

aiso or. Lrangei is oniy asiung for one replacement bus for the coming year, but it will be more expensive because it will be a full-sized bus with a wheel chair lift. One bus driver’s salary has been cut from the budget. No driver will be cut; the position will be cut by attrition, but one bus run will be combined with the handicapped bus run.

In addition to the problems in putting together the budget caused by less money, Dr. Gangel and his staff struggled with the new budget format required for this budget. “This is a regulatory agency’s dream, but an administrator’s nightmare,” he said.

In addition to needing an 18-digit code for each line item, the new budget calls for many more line items. For example the are separate line items for social security for each class of employee: regular elementary school teachers, regular high school teachers, special education elementary school teachers, special education high school teachers, Chapter One teachers at the elementary school, vocational teachers at the high school, and teachers of the gifted at both schools. There are also separate lines for social security payments for guidance personnel at both schools and for library personnel at both schools. Teachers’ aides, regular and special education at each school, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers and various classes of administrators also have separate lines for their social security payments. All of this was one line item under fixed charges in the old budget.

Before hearing the superintendent present his budget, the school board first heard from a delegation of parents from the Amissville area who complained about their children’s bus driver. After the board members heard parents complain that the driver was inconsistent in when the bus arrived to pick up chil