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almost seven per cent of local funds for Chapter Ten.
“Next year’s request will be based upon this formula,” Lieberman stated. Using figures from one month’s study of utilization rates, he said Rappahannock would be asked for almost a 100 per cent increase.
Supervisors Butch Eastham requested the percentage that the county now pays.
$5,108 out of $32,000 for approximately three per cent, Lieberman replied.
“So we have to get it up to about six and a half per cent,” responded Eastham.
Lieberman told the Supervisors that the increase wouldn’t be requested all at once but would be worked up to gradually over five years until the county was paying its fair share of the costs, according to the new formula.
Luke commented that the formula was “controversial”, specifically the “revenue capacity” component. A jurisdiction’s ability to pay
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