The Board of Education gave final approval for the $74.5 million Bulloch County Schools operating budget, then offered informal support for a study of the school system's pay scales to gauge whether raises are needed. Two weeks earlier, board members Anshul Jain and Steve Hein had voted against preliminary budget approval. This followed a discussion in which several members reported hearing from teachers and parents last school year that some classrooms did not have enough of certain assigned books for each student to take one home.