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education, Beard said that the only things affecting Rappahannock’s funding were the real estate prices in the county. “The more land goes up, the less you'll get from the state" in reimbursement for the costs of education, said Beard.
He noted that the state would consider use value of land rather than its speculative value for inclusion in the formula if Rappahannock adopted land use but Beard expressed doubt as to whether this measure would have any great impact on the amount the county receives in state aid for education. "Your problem here is industry. You need it to pick up the slack that land use takes away.”
In response to a question on what the Assembly intended to do about utilin surcharges and fuel adjustment charges. Beard replied that a law had been passed stipulating that surcharges can’t fluctuate as of 1979 but would have to stay at a fixed rate.
In commenting on the relations between state and federal government. Beard said that "anytime you get money from the federal government, you get a string attached. Well, it used to be a string. Now, it's a rope!'
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