SAUGUS – The School Committee voted a budget Thursday, which “adequately educates the students of Saugus,” which is to say it is unlikely to make it to the floor of Town Meeting.The $27,650,461 budget is $6 million greater than the budget the School Department received last year. The budget restores the 58 positions – mostly teachers – that were “liquidated” last year. It also, according to Finance Manger Richard Weeks, pulls together requests from the principals and department administrators.Superintendent Keith Manville said he understands the number is large but he is hoping the impact won’t be lost on residents.What the School Committee is trying to do, Manville explained, is restore a budget that was devastated last year when it was cut by $1.3 million. The cuts resulted in the loss of a school nurse, part-time custodians and teachers. No new books, technology or supplies were purchased, other than copy paper, and class sizes jumped on almost every level.”This budget includes foreign language in the middle school, it brings classroom numbers back down to where teachers can work individually with students like they used to,” Manville said. “I strongly recommend this budget. I think it’s an accurate measure of what Saugus schools should be.”The Board of Selectmen, however, approved Town Manager Andrew Bisignani’s budget Tuesday, which budgeted only $22.5 million for the School Department. Barring any changes from the Finance Committee, that is the budget Town Meeting will receive.School Committee member Christine Wilson said that version would not even afford the School Department a level-funded budget. Wilson said the schools needed $23.6 million just to maintain the already inadequate budget it has – a $1.2 million difference.”There is no place left to cut,” she said.If the deficit tied to the Kasabuski ice rink is resolved, Bisignani has promised the schools a minimum of another $800,000.Committee member Frederick Doucette said he didn’t think the schools could possibly take another million-dollar hit. If the schools lost 58 employees when they took a $1.3 million hit, Doucette said it stands to reason they would lose a similar number if they were forced to cut another $1.2 from the budget.”Devastation is the term we’re using this year for the budget,” he said. “I don’t know if there is a term to describe what we’ll have next year.”High School teacher and Saugus Educators Association President Russ Brandwein said he could give numerous anecdotes regarding the devastation wrought by this year’s budget cut.”I’m troubled because the students I teach – things are tough enough for kids,” he said. “School should be a place they don’t have to worry. They should be a haven, more than a haven, but I fear greatly for the kids coming in, particularly on the elementary level.”Brandwein said he fears the budget cuts are putting obstacles in the path of teachers that are simply too large to get around.”We do the best we can but no workman can build without proper tools,” he said.