LETTER TO THE EDITOR

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor of the Rappahannock News:

I wish the readers of this paper to have a factual statement relating to the recent Rappahannock County Court Case of Roberta K. Spaulding and Virginia Smith against the Virginia State Compensation Board in which the Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock i.iought the county’s^ i n te rest should be repr^swted^. since local taxes are used tiTpayy-j of the salaries of the above mentioned county and state empoyees. ' N e it her the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors nor any members took any action o.i the salary request of the Commissioner ,of Revenue of Rappahannock County untpl the " regular January 1959 meeting which was held on January 7, 1959. At the January meeting the Board by a 2/3 majority opposed the Commissioner's salary increase and requested a hearing before a 5 man board composed of the three members of the State Compensation Board and two members of^he County Board of Supervisors.

At this hearing the Compensation Board took the following action and I quot from a letter of the Secretary of the Board.

This is to confirm the action v of the five member Boad (Code -

Section 14-63) on March 17,

1959, namely.....

Annual rate of Compensation

for the Commissioner of Reve' nue effective April. 1, 1959

$3600.

Annual rate of ^Compensatjpn

for the Assistant! to the Commissioner

of Revenue effective

April I,' 195^ $1680.

This action gave a salarv( increase of $100 to Commissione - and $480 to the assistant for 1959 in excess of 1958 salaries.

When the case was appealed the Board of Supervisors at its regular May meeting voted to employ an attorney to represent them since ■ our Commonwealth’s Attorney had disqualified himself. At the meeting the vote was 3 for and 1 member not voting. The member not