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“The education^ lobbyists had very littlr SOCcess ITT h'ddfessinrthe funding formula,” said Gordon W. Fletcher Jr., the lobbyist for Loudoun County’s school system, “and that was the main issue.”
“It has the capability of significantly reducing the state effort to meet what has been called full funding,” he said.
“Probably it was not a very good session from public education’s standpoint,” said Mr. Fletcher, who is especially chagrined at passage of & law that will require all school divisions to begin the school year after Labor Day.
Gov. Gerald L. Baliles began his administration with a pair of forceful speeches that made transportation his top priority and charted a startling new course for addressing the issue.
He proposed a break from the state’s “pay-as-you-go” tradition of transportation funding and asked the Assembly to establish a special commission, called the Commission on Virginia’s Transportation Needs in the 21st Century, to identify the state’s most pressing transportation needs and recommend new ways to finance them. The legislature will reconvene in September to consider those recommendations.
The governor’s principle for financing is to separate funds for road maintenance and construction, funding the former through traditional means like the gasoline tax and the latter through long-term financing mechanisms, including state bond issues.
That commission, which has met once, will include a local representative, Sen. Charles L. Waddell (DLoudoun/Fairfax), who chairs the
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