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four percent over the current year. The county’s share of the proposed expenditures amounts to $51,052, a six percent climb from the 1982-83 request of $-48,221. “That’s below the inflation rate,” Kreitler noted.
She explained that the major increases come in foster care and auxiliary grants to pay for nursing home care and other alternative living arrangements for elderly and handicapped clients who meet income eligibility and other criteria.
In addition, Kreitler said, the budget includes a state-mandated salary increase for Social Service Department staffers. She noted that she’d asked for an additional part-time person and had given up $1,000 of her own raise to fund the position.
In addition, she pointed out on the budget sheets that most of the new block grant funds coming to Rappahannock have been directed to companion services, a program aimed
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