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Our View
Working
together
The county has just concluded—gently it seems—
an activity that normally brings much more tension
and perturbation to the principal players.
The Rappahannock Board of Supervisors adopted a school budget for the next fiscal year that is merely $100,000 less (out of more than $9 million) than that requested by the School Board.
At the budget adoption meeting on May 5, no one appeared less than pleased at this result—not the four School Board members in attendance, not Interim Superintendent Helen Williams, not those in the audience who came to support the budget and not even the members of the Board of Supervisors.
Though there were negative comments about the size of the schools' administrative budget—and promises to reduce that component in the near future—all seemed quite in accord this year, and even praise was directed at Williams and the School Board by some supervisors.
It is not too difficult to see what differentiates this year from recent ones. Helen Williams has done a superlative job in replacing David Gangel as superintendent, if only on an interim basis, and she and School Board members have engaged in a program of communication about the budget with the community, school staff and the Board of Supervisors.
Community groups too, like Headwaters, have done their utmost to raise the level of understanding and support for the school budget.
It has been a pleasure to watch: an effective superintendent dealing with effective players—School Board, Board of Supervisors, county administrator— all dealing with an interested and active community.
Could it be better?
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