The Harford school board wants to patch relations with the county government, which turned tense when the proposed 2008 operating budget was millions of dollars short of the board?s original request.

“We?re not going to get all the funds we think we need to continue to take things to the next level,” said School Board Member Tom Fidler on Friday. “We would be foolish not to complain at least a little bit … but the school system?s not going to implode.”