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replied that this fee was only intended to cover costs of the zoning office, not serve as a revenue source. “You could triple it and still not cover the costs of the zoning office,” interjected Davis.
“Can you put a tax with a different rate on vacation property?” asked Eastham. Luke was interested in the possibility of a land sales tax.
“We need to have some additional source of revenue,” said Luke, who told the other Board members that failure of the Revenue Sharing Bill to pass Congress would mean a tax hike to $5 if Rappahannock continued to provide the same services.
LUKE also reminded the Supervisors that Rappahannock was due to start the land value reassesment that must be done by the tax year 1978. Counties with populations under 15,000 must conduct a reassesment every four years now, instead of every six years. Luke estimated it would cost $18,000 to get that done.
These were all factors beyond the control of individuals, but “The public can damn well do something about trash collection,” said Luke. He said last month’s dumpster bill was $3,031.25. “Some people seem to feel to hell with it—we’ll put anything in it,” said Luke, criticizing the disposal of burnables, particularly large, empty cardboard boxes in the dumpsters.
DAVIS reminded Luke of existing laws prohibiting open fire burning. “Without putting burnables in dumpsters, we’d have litter all over the county,” said Davis.
“We need to change the laws on home burning, then, or this thing’s gonna go out of sight!” responded Luke.
Supervisor J. R. Latham maintained that the only way to stop people from dumping trash along
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