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Board is permitted to move money around from category to category, at its own discretion, with accountability to no one. These aren't nickels and dimes - we are talking about millions of dollars.
It’s been argued that a switch to Ron Frazier's proposal to approve the budget by category would amount to micro-managing. But how could that be true if it’s still the School Board that would designate the categories and put in the numbers in the first place? The state of Virginia has provisions to allow counties to approve school budgets in this manner - with the clear intent of allowing county governments to keep expenses within guidelines and under control.
In Rappahannock County, Ix'cause of the School Board’s past failures in managing projects, the supervisors have had to take over
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