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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock >»*w« Staff Writer
After tour hours of wrangling over the proposed 1982-83 budget on Monday morning, the Rappahannock supervisors whittled $72,000 from school expenditures and agreed to draw approximately $60,000 more from county surplus to bring the tax rate for next year down to 33 cents per $100 of fair market value assessment.
The 33 cent rate, which will be advertised with a budget synopsis for public hearing on June 7, represents a three percent increase over the current levy.
Despite reductions n proposed expenditures. , ,e limited increase would not have been possible without the use of approximately $200,000 in surplus, the equivalent of over nine cents on the rate.
(The present rate is $5.30 but this was applied on old discounted appraisals. For comparison, the rate necessary to support the current budget would have been 32 cents if fair market value assessments had been effective in 1981-82.)
Starting with a total proposed budget of $3,437,286 and a 40 cent tax rate, the supervisors cut $72,000 from the school budget, leaving the decision on where to absorb the reduction with the school board. They suggested, however, that employees be
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