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ditures as detailed in the proposed budget will produce “reasonable" surplus of approximately $200,000 by the end of fiscal year 1983.
Cox opened the 9 a.m. budget work session with a bit of good news: a utility franchise tax the board plans to adopt this year will bring in $20,000.
Final word on salaries for constitutional officers— commissioner of revenue, sheriff and deputies, commonwealth’s attorney and treasurer—won’t be available from the State Compensation Board until the first week in June, Cox said. The state is supposed to pay all the expenses of the Commonwealth’s attorney’s office and the sheriffs department and half the expenses of the commissioner of revenue’s and treasurer’s office, he said. But this year, all departments were cut at the state level by five percent and then 4'/- percent was added back for pay increases. The result, Cox explained, is a funding shift that leaves the county responsible for slightly more than half the cost of the commissioner of revenue’s and treasurer’s offices and a portion of the sheriffs and com
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