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Supervisors insist on reducing our county tax base with hand use value taxation and the formation of A and F Districts, while faced with ever increasing demands for unanticipated public expenditures, this problem will remain and get worse.
4.) The High School students must continue to suffer because of the “lack of information” on the part of a few members of the community.
Was not the whole thrust of my Oct. 30 letter to insist that the School Board move quickly to provide the Supervisors and local residents with specific data to justify the H.S. expansion and thereby overcome the community’s “lack of information?” Did I not outline the factual data needed? Had not the School Board already agreed to publicly to provide it? Why then does the School Board continue to sit on its hands with regard to its commitment to provide it?
A final sad note for Karen and other readers (such as the writer). Not only is the scope of this H.S. expansion project a controversial subject, so far, in this county; press reports from Richmond this week tells us that the State Senate’s Finance Committee (Chairman Hunter B. Andrews) has just been warned by its staff analysts that the Literary Fund has been disrupted by increasing drains on its revenues to pay for teacher retirement costs.
Eighty-one localities (including Rappahannock) are waiting for $78.5 millions in loans to help build or expand schools. The Literary Fund’s waiting list for loans has increased five-fold since such loans were frozen for two years by Gov. Robb in 1983, as was pointed out in my letter of Oct. 30. Senator Andrews believes that localities may be facing the same backlog cycle again.
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