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Smel Is Zoning Administrator
The Board of Supervisors appointed Building Inspector Emiel Smet of Amissville as the county’s zoning administrator. Smet has been named to the position while the Supervisors make a decision about whether or not to hire a county administrator who would handle the zoning matters as well as other duties.
• Scrabble Dumpster Site
After its executive session, the Board of Supervisors announced on Monday, March 4 that Rappahannock County has the winning bid for the Scrabble dumpster site. The Supervisors authorized 10 percent of the bid price to be paid.
The purchase is subject to the approval of the circuit court, but the Supervisors anticipate that the court will accept Rappahannock’s bid.
• Groups Back County Administrator
Two citizen groups have recommended that the Board of Supervisors “take the steps necessary to obtain the services of a qualified county administrator.” (
During the Board’s March 4 meeting, Phil Irwin, president of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection (RLEP), distributed a memo that cite ', among other things, county growth and the “increasing complexity” of issues faced by the county as reasons for the recommendation.
Both Irwin and Nels Parson, president of Rappahannock’s chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, signed the memo, part of which read: “...we think that the Board of Supervisors should retain the services of a county administrator, or an assistant to the Board of Supervisors, to aid it in planning for the future, resolving issues as they arise, and in general, conducting its business in an efficient, and forwardlooking, and responsive manner. It is clear to us that a county administrator could assume the duties of zoning administrator... ”
Irwin said that the county would benefit financially from the appointment of a county administrator.
• More Money For Rapp’k Schools
Local public school systems in Virginia will be among the biggest beneficiaries of the 1985 General Assembly’s adjustments to the 19841986 state budget.
The assembly, which adjourned February 23, increased state basic aid to $1,901 per pupil for the 1985-86 fiscal year, the second in the state’s two-year budget cycle.
Local school systems get $1,605 per pupil in the current 1984-85 fiscal year and the budget the assembly passed last year would have given them $1,776 per pupil for 1985-86.
But the legislature and Gov. Charles S. Robb were able to increase that amount to $1,901, because of a state budget surplus of more than $90 million.
Robb and the Assembly also increased the ratio of teachers to pupils that it uses to fund education locally. The ratio increased from 54 to 57 teachers per 1000 students; the actual state average is about 65 teachers per 1,000.
What it .means is that in 1985-86, Rappahannock County will get $94,575 more than it gets in 1984-85, according to figures from the House Appropriations Committee staff in Richmond.
It also means that the state is giving 91 percent of its share of the amount needed to fully fund the Standards of Quality that it mandates for Virginia’s public schools, compared to 84 percent before. Full funding would be $2,089 per pupa, according to the State Department of Education.
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