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Rappahannock County right now came out of that committee,” he added.
Acknowledging Rappahannock's trash problem, Beard reported that the last session of the General Assembly had passed a litter bill that has yet to be adopted by any Virginia county. He said the ordinance calls for either (1) an automatic fine of $1,000 or (2) six months spent cleaning up the road sides for throwing litter out of an automobile.
Beard criticized action taken on the last day of the 1979 Assembly session to cut $1,300,000 from community college budgets. According to Beard, ill colleges suffered because a few were suspected of inflating enrollment figures. "They didn’t bother to check the individual community colleges and cut only those that were guilty. 'Then) they took the money and gave it to seven cities." Beard said, adding that the cities weren’t required to account for the expenditure of the funds.
Describing Germanna Community College south of Culpeper as “a great asset" and an institution that provides "solid education." Beard promised to investigate community college funding during the 1980 session.
Noting that there is a movement to eliminate the sales tax on food, the 25th legislative district representative said he’s “on the fence” because “1 don’t know what’s going to replace the $3 billion in revenue.” He added that he couldn’t support replacement of the lost food tax money with a hike in state income tax.
Beard also indicated he was torn on what position to take in regard to a gas tax increase. “If it’s not raised, highway funds (to localities) will be cut. There’s already a
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