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He added that his experience with the budget is that ‘It looks like this every year - we get down to nothing by May ...” which is the month when the Rappahannock National Bank pays its franchise tax. Last year that tax netted the town $8,500, about two-thirds of its revenue for the year.
This coming fiscal year will be different, since the town will have revenue from its 2 1/2 percent meals and transient lodging tax, which took effect April 1.
“It’s going to be an interesting budget to do,” Mr. Fisher said. “I don’t know what we have got coming in.”
“It’s going to be difficult to match it up (revenues and expenditures),” Mayor Morehouse agreed. He added that the solution might be to include a balanced budget provision in the authorization, with a “road map” indicating where Council is heading with the expenditures.
Council agreed to a timetable for beginning work on the water system. Design is expected to be completed by May 1, with bids due on July 1 and construction set to begin by July 15.
Mayor Morehouse reported to Council that he and Mr. Fisher had met with several landowners who were upset about brush being cleared along the water line’s right-of-way without notification.
He said that an agreement is pending which will provide for notice to landowners of clearing operations, with the salvage value of the trees reimbursed to the landowner.
Mr. Fisher explained that the problem stems from the fact that the town has a 10-foot-wide easement through the two properties, owned by Nels Parson and Sid Berry. The easement follows the route of the main water supply line as it travels from the town’s well, to the reservoir and zig-zags as far as the edge of the properties as it comes into town along Piedmont Avenue.
That easement, however, is not marked on the plats of the properties, Mr. Fisher said. Mention of it appears only in the text of the deeds, in a reference which dates from 1935. He requested authorization from Council to have the easement surveyed and the plats marked and recorded to show the right-of-way.
“We are working with very cooperative landownc. s on this matter,” Mayor Morehouse added. “It’s in the town’s interest to have the survey done and mark the plats.”
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