The North Wasco County School District 21 budget committee needed only one meeting to send a 2018-19 budget to the D-21 board.  D-21 Superintendent Candy Armstrong says the only significant change from this year’s budget is the addition of instructional assistants in each elementary school to help with kindergarten and first grade students who need skill building in order to self-regulate.  Armstrong says the instructional assistants will work with counselors in each elementary building, with Mid-Columbia Center for Living helping with training and therapeutic time on the campuses.  But to afford to do that, Armstrong said they will have to leave the district-wide librarian position unfilled this coming school year.  The D-21 board will vote on the budget in mid-June.