April 6, 1989 — Sharp words over a possible tax increase to cover the rising cost of education alternated with expressions of common concern for the welfare of Page County students Thursday night, as the school board presented a proposed 1989-90 budget of about $13.1 million to the Page County Board of Supervisors.
Unveiled by School Superintendent Jim Campbell, the preliminary figure of $13,079,359 is up $1,132,117 from the 1988- 89 budget, an increase of 9.5 percent.
“I want everybody to understand we’re going to have to raise taxes to get it,” said District 2 Supervisor Charles Griffith, the board’s chairman.
The supervisors, Griffith said, “have been kicked in the teeth in the last few months, and I’m getting fed up with it.”
“I don’t think it’s fair to poke all the blame at the school system, when it’s not the school system’s fault,” Jimmy Seekford, school board member from District 4, said.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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