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$4.5M school
budget passed
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
The Rappahannock School Board’s first budget work session was its last for this year. The board unanimously passed the $4.5 million budget submitted by School Superintendent David Gangel last Tuesday evening.
Dr.Gangel will present the school budget to the Board of Supervisors at its regular meeting on April 2. The supervisors have scheduled a work session for Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m., followed by a public hearing on the school budget April 30 and a vote at the regular meeting May 7.
Dr. Gangel recommended some changes in the budget and the board approved them before it was adopted, including deleting $11,605 from the state aid revenue and from expenses. This was money for a grant program used for preventing drop outs. During the current year the funds have been used to hire a part-time coordinator and supplies.
Dr. Gangel told the board that Rappahannock will reapply for money under this program and if the county receives a grant, he will ask the supervisors to add it to the school budget then.
An extra $2,259 was added to the portion of the budget funded by the county, and to expenses, representing an increase in Rappahannock’s share of the costs of operation of Piedmont Technical Education Center, the regional vocational education center in Culpeper County. The final budget adopted by the General Assembly did include some funds for vocational education centers (the governor’s budget as submitted did not), but Richmond still provided less money than had been anticipated when the local budget and Piedmont’s budget were first prepared.
After those changes the total budget of $4,507,999 is up $279,697 Over this year’s budget, an increase of 6.61 percent. The county’s share of the budget, $2,459,019, is up $300,284 over the current budget. The 13.91 percent in local funding was necessary, Dr. Gangel explained, beSee
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