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with a report showing the year’s expenses by function, which showed significant overspending of the budget for vehicle operation, building services and school food, and underspending in the large “classroom instruction’* account, which includes teacher pay, benefits and other instructional costs.
The $7.3 million classroom instruction categoryshowed spending of more than $6.9 million, leaving $412,095 unspent. This “surplus’’ in the classroom instruction category was used to cover overspending in other accounts.
Spending on vehicle operation of $845,705 was $74,639 over the budget, due mostly to higher fuel costs. Building services costs of $825,560 ran $28,563 over budget, due to higher spending on fuel oil and custodial supplies. Spending on school food was nearly $200,000 and ran $107,693 over the budgeted amount.
To “balance the books,” as Chappell put it, and wipe out the negative balances in overspent categories, the School Board authorized transfers of funds among categories. These included a transfer of $74,332 from classroom instruction to vehicle operation; $107,694 from classroom instruction to the school food account; and $14,561 from classroom instruction to building services.
After all the fund transfers and reconciliation of accounts, the year-end summary showed total school expenditures of $12.051.981 out of total revenues of $12,054,762. That left a yearend balance of $2,781.67, which is to be returned to the Board of Supervisors.
James P. Gannon is editor of rappvoice.com
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