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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Mcwa Staff Writer
After a two-member budget work session and private consultations, the Rappahannock supervisors on Monday took a knife to expenditures proposed for 1981-82 and cut away SI43.486. suggesting that the biggest chunk come from raises and fringe benefits for school employees. The surgery left the county budget for next year at just over $3 million and brought the proposed tax rate down from $6.80 per $100 on the old assessments to $5.70.
The rate which will be advertised along with a budget synopsis for public hearing on June 1 represents an increase of 29 percent over the current $4.40 levy. In actuality, however, the increase in individual bills will be around 10 percent since all but 45 cents of the proposed $1.30 hike is a shift to offset revenue lost by the supervisors’ action earlier this year to eliminate taxes on household goods, farm machinery, livestock and merchants capital.
Last Friday at the session, supervisor Clarence Baldwin proposed slashing the school budget by $100,000. “People are just raising hell about the tax increase (to $6.80) and this looks like the only place where we can do something about it." Baldwin said.
Chairman E. P. Luke responded that Wally Cox. Rappahannock's accountant.
coming primarily from salaries, gasoline and fringe benefits. The allocation for regular gas could be budgeted at $1.50 instead of $1.80 per gallon for a reduction of $12,300 and $1.80 instead of $2 for
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