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Rappahannock Welfare Board members, faced with a $3,400 budget shortage, ducked a decision on possible solutions to their financial dilemma at last Friday’s meeting, forwarding the problem directly to the Board of Supervisors. At issue is an optional companion and chore services program involving $2,000 in local revenue.
Of the Welfare budget shortfall, $1,400 involves mandatory assistance programs and administration costs. As these programs are required by state law, the Board of Supervisors appear to have no choice but to fiind them through an additional appropriation to cover Rappahannock’s local share of costs.
However, companion services is not mandatory. The Welfare Board could elect to discontinue the program or the Supervisors could refuse to appropriate the necessary $2,000 local matching funds.
Before asking the Welfare Board members for a decision on whether they wanted to continue offering compahion services as an optional program, Public Assistance director Elizabeth Buntin presented information on the funding status of all the components in the welfare budget. She concluded that it wasn’t feasible to transfer funds from another category to cover the existing shortages—at least not this early in the fiscal year.
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