Question about "beginning skills"

The paragraph on page 38 in the 4th ed second printing of car wars talks about starting with base-level skills, running, climbing and area knowledge. It says you get 30 points to spend and that each base level skill costs 10 pts. Now, the second paragraph says you can't spend the 30 beginning skill points to acquire three baselevel skills or get one skill at baselevel and a second at +1. Would that be only 20 pts spent? The next sentence says you could even sink off 30 points into buying one skill at +2. Should that be +3?
Maybe I'm understanding this wrong so can someone clarify it for me or is the text wrong and should be added to the errata.
Thanks.

Question about "beginning skills"