Following a roughly three-hour joint meeting Tuesday night on the school division’s proposed FY2027 budget, Mathews School Board members and county supervisors didn’t appear to come to an agreement about what the county’s share of that budget should be. In the meeting in the Brooks Auditorium at Thomas Hunter Middle School, superintendent of schools Dr. David S. Daniel presented a second draft of his proposed budget that would reduce the salary increase for teachers and other staff from 2 percent plus step to 1 percent (maintaining a 6 percent raise for teacher assistants), eliminating the proposed athletic trainer position and other measures—all to get the budget to level funding from the county at approximately $9.1 million. His original budget proposal called for roughly $9.4 million in county funds. However, County Administrator Ramona Wilson indicated that her draft budget calls for only $8.5 million contributed by the county for schools, well below the amount being sought by the ...