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It isn’t done yet, but the Blue Ridge School Board set aside the budget for its scheduled business meeting on May 7th. They’ll be back at it two days hence, however, when the Budget & Finance Committee gathers again “to further discuss the challenges we face,” in the words of Board President Laurie Brown-Bonner. The district needs to offer a budget to the public by the end of the month so it can be formally adopted by the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.

Bracketed between executive sessions on gas leasing, personnel and student discipline, the meeting celebrated member Cindy Gaughan’s birthday with cupcakes, and disposed of a 30-point agenda in short order.

But obviously something did. Commissioners, after all, spent seven whole minutes in meeting. They pledged allegiance; approved eight motions; answered four questions; recognized two employees; issued one proclamation; and adjourned the meeting, all in less time than it takes the average smoker to get a fix.

Commissioners Allen Hall, Michael Giangrieco, and Mary Ann Warren met from 9 to 9:07 a.m. on Wednesday, May 9, in the Commissioners’ Meeting Room at the County Courthouse. In the company of the Chief Clerk, three members of the public, and three members of the press, commissioners executed their well-rehearsed and familiar routine.

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