Mostly, they discuss the Board of Education's $7.4 billion budget and its much-maligned bureaucracy.

The Board of Education's annual budget is about $8 billion.

Notwithstanding their diversity and differences on other issues, residents have consistently passed the Board of Education's annual budget.

The Board of Education's budget fell to $7.3 billion this year from $7.6 billion in 1994, a $222 million reduction.

He insists that the money can be found within the Board of Education's existing $11.5 billion budget.

Another proposal that came under fire yesterday was to give the Mayor complete control over a tiny percentage of the Board of Education's budget.

At the same time, though, the budget will cut $750 million from the Board of Education's projected general budget.

The Board of Education's $5.2 billion budget is bigger than many state budgets, and in many ways its problems are more intransigent.

Any new government, he said, should be forced to live within the Board of Supervisor's current $2.2 million budget, with increases limited to the growth in inflation.

One of these is the Board of Education's budget.