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“shed a little light” on Mrs. Settle’s comment that Rappahannock’s teachers’ salaries had to be competitive, Fauquier and Warren are “rich counties,” Foster said, and can afford to pay more.
Delores Dalton said that she voted and paid taxes at the local, state and national level, and she wouldn’t object to a tax increase. She recommended that the budget be adopted as the school board recommended.
0. A. NORTON said that the school board budget would be increased over the current budget, even if the teachers didn’t get an increase. The cost of services has gone up, he said. Norton said there is “double jeopardy” in failing to adopt the budget. “If there is a reduction in the county share, the state won’t pay its share.
Jennings Hobson said he understood that Rappahannock County was ranked as third in the state in ability to pay and at the bottom in performance to pay.
Pete Luke said that the Supervisors are only responsible for adjusting “the bottom line.” How the school board allocates that money “is their business.”
Superintendent 0. A. Norton told the audience that only 47 per cent of the amount of money required to fund the budget would come from local tax funds, 23.9 per cent comes from state school funds, 15.3 from the state sales tax, 3.6 from the funds due state, 4.3 per cent from federal sources and .5 per cent from miscellaneous funds.
96.6%