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Krebser
appointed
to Planning
Commission * ■ ... ' By Gerald Ochs ^ . Rappahannock News Writer Wakefield District Supervisor ' Roger Welch recommended the * appointment of Dr. Werner Krebser to another term on the Planning Commission at the Board of - Supervisors May meeting, despite months of rumors that other candidates were in line for the job. Mr. Welch reported that “The citizens of the Wakefield District would like to reappoint Dr. Krebser, and that’s my recommendation.” The Board agreed, voting unanimously for Dr. Krebser’a appointment. r Positive performance in early SOL test School Superintendent Dr. David Gangel opened his “About Our Schools” report to the Board with more than positive news on SOL testing. He informed the Board that the schools have received preliminary results on the writing section of the Standards of Learning English test, and that the results show a greater than 91 percent pass rate for fifth and eighth grades, and a 75 percent pass rate for eleventh grade students.
Full accreditation is granted those schools that have a pass rate on all SOL tests of approximately 70 percent. Dr. Gangel also reported on the School Board’s successful reconciliation of the school budget at a called meeting last Friday. He noted that the School Board agreed on shifting more than $395,000 in proposed capital expenditures from the school budget to the control of the Board of , Supervisors, and effecting some < $315,000 in other reductions, the largest of which was approximately \ $80,000 . in reductions to teacher salary increase^. See BOARD, Page AS
School
Board
reacts to cuts id:i*- i*. .. By Gerald Ochs j Rappahannock New* Writer Four days after having had their budget cut by some $315,000 out of just over $9 million by the Board of Supervisors, the School Board me^ as Chair Wesley Mills said, “to die? ran how to react..." The proposed budget was actually y* just over $9.45 million, but schools Superintendent Dr. David Gangel and the School Board proposed, and the Board of Supervisors agreed, that $395,792 in funding for capital projects be removed from the school butt get and paid for directly by thg County. That left a balance of just over $9 million from which the Board of Supervisors cut some 3.5 percent leaving Rappahannock Count? s. Public Schools with $8,739,229 for FY 2001-2002, or about $340,009 (four percent) more than this year. As a first order of business at lad ,;*r Friday’s budget work session, the School Board asked for public com’ ments that might aid them in the cutting process, and they heard froA .• ft number of residents. * Margaret Lee, President of thft Rappahannock County Education > Association, led off by speaking for. f County teachers and support persorfi » nel. Ms. Lee said that the teacherC i anticipating some cuts in salary ' increases, asked that the School Board, as necessary, cut their salary increases, but maintain the rate df increase for support personnel. * 'l Katherine Treanor agreed, asking % that any necessary pay raise cuts be applied to teachers and administrft* tors, but not to support personnel. * She also spoke in support of International Baccalaureate \ Program and technology program funding. Ron Makela said that * “Without good teachers, we don’t * have anything,” and suggested 1 retaining teacher salary increases
and debarring or cutting the larger % .?., r • - ?*■ v - : 8ee BUDGET, Page A$ * -'3;, -u „•
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