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Primarily land values, answered Superintendent O.A. Norton. The formula divides into ten per cent sales tax, 40 per cent income and 50 per cent land values. Norton said that sales tax revenues were more indicative of wealth than either income or land values. “If there isn’t a shopping center, if there isn’t a place to spend (money) in the community, it gets no credit for sales tax.” Money is, instead, spent in other communities, bringing in corresponding state revenues.
“I BET the income of the Quality Inn in Front Royal will exceed the combined income from all the restaurants and motels in Rappahannock,” commented Montague.
Have representatives Slaughter and Miller made any attempt to change the formula, asked Sharon Kilpatrick.
Montague said the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors had made strong statements to the effect that the current formula unfairly penalizes rural counties, but he doubted that a drive to alter how funds are disbursed would be successful. Urban areas hold most of the strength in the state legislature and would surely oppose any attempts to change the formula, said Montague.
Kilpatrick contended that consideration should be given to the difficulties of operating a school system in a sparsely populated area. “Bus transportation is much more expensive,” she said.
“I think Rappahannock would rank very high in cost of pupil transportation, ’ ’ Montague agreed.
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