The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, in a budget workshop Tuesday, voted 3-2 to have County Administrator Ramona Wilson revise the proposed budget to reduce the county’s share of funding for Mathews County Public Schools to $8.5 million from the recently-proposed $8.7 million. Chairman Tom Bowen and supervisor Janice Phillips cast the dissenting votes. The $8.7 million budget that Wilson had prepared for the day’s meeting had been discussed during a joint work session with the school board and the board of supervisors on March 12. School board members had said they could deal with that amount, but after extensive discussion, supervisors Pat Beattie, Tim Doss and David Walsh were not convinced that much was needed. Doss cited past inconsistencies in the numbers provided by the schools, with the division’s revenues turning out to be more than the supervisors had been led to believe. He also pointed out that, as Wilson mentioned earlier in the meeting, the General Assembly’s budget wi...