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by Ron Wiley, Baptist minister from Sperryville, and Dave Moore, Methodist minister from Washington. Wiley said he’d asked the School Board chairman why a “more challenging budget” hadn’t been submitted and had been told to come and lobby before the Supervisors. Moore contended that the Rappahannock County Education Association’s requests were reasonable and should be considered.
Asked for her opinion, School Board chairman Beverly Massie said from the audience that her Board preferred that the Supervisors approve the budget as submitted—a budget she described as “realistic” instead of tailored to fit what the Supervisors would authorize.
In defense of a school budget funded only to the minimum level set by the state, Luke noted that the Supervisors had to "look down the road on money business in light of capital improvements that will be required.”
Utility Tax
William Bolt from Chester Gap and Tom Faust of Amissville criticized the proposed amendment to the utility tax ordinance, charging that it would hit hardest on people with fixed incomes who used less electricity. “I’ll have to pay as much as a man with a big bill,” said Bolt, adding that the increase to his electrical bill would total S3 per month.
“Utility and property taxes are the only places we have flexibility” to raise revenue for county services, said Luke. Without the revenue from the utility tax amendment, property taxes would have to be higher, according to the Supervisor chairman. “We could make the property tax $4.46,” he noted.
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