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“ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL thing,” lamented Newbill Miller, Chairman of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, at last Thursday’s second session of the September Board meeting. So much time had been taken up at the previous week’s meeting on subdivision and zoning amendments that a second installment had to be arranged to handle “routine” business.
Miller was referring to the State’s mandatory re-assessment that will influence the* tax bills of Rappahannock citizens by 1976.
“This has to be done every six years? I hate it,” said Miller, in response to notification by the Real Estate Division of the Department of Taxation, that the Supervisors shouid recommend a number of citizens to form a re-assessing committee.
Miller recalled the criticism that accompanied the last re-assessment of Rappahannock land. “There was criticism that each individual landowner was not notified. Cost eight cents to mail a letter; the envelope is another penny... ’ ’
“Costs 25 cents a letter,” said Col. Pete T ,ukfi
“If you post the post offices and put it in The Rappahannock News, then I
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