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1% tax on that.”
CLERK Ned Jones said there is already a .9% tax on real estate sold. ‘‘We could make it an even 1%,” Luke thought. Jones said he thought state law prohibited that.
After the supervisors decided on a tax rate of $3.90, Luke noted that this leaves the county with a $40,000 deficit, which will have to come out of the county’s surplus funds which are now about $100, 000. ‘‘This means everyone is going to have to start living within their means,” Luke said.
One of the budget requests eliminated entirely by the Supervisors was $414 for a district agency on aging. Ian Pryde, who had served on the aging council that proposed the idea of an agency on aging, thought it ‘‘pretty dam sad” that Rappahannock’s old people weren’t worth a little more than $400. Orange County has agreed to pay its share of the program, he said, and once it gets established, it may even cost Rappahannock less than is requested for this year.
Supervisor H.B. Wood said he’d talked to a number of elderly people in his district, and not one of them favored the proposed agency. E.N. Manwaring noted he’d not been at the Supervisors’ regular meeting when a number of people voiced support for the aging agency, but he added that the Supervisors’ action didn’t preclude the
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