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thought instead that some of that money should be used to increase teachers’ salaries. The money allocated for the building additions could be better spent elsewhere, Miller said.
James W. Fletcher, III, of Sperryville, lamenting three tax raises in five years, said the county needs to be “tighter” with its money. He told the Board that tax revenues should be spent as if they were an individual’s personal income.
While citing the need to stop spiraling taxes, Fletcher said he feared for farmers: “We get no more for cattle now than we did three years ago, but the cost (of maintaining them) has in- • creased three-fold.” He also argued
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