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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Using $464,228 from the accumulated balance in the general fund to shrink a 51 percent tax increase to 33 percent, accountant Wally Cox has presented the Board of Supervisors with a draft budget of $5.9 million that demands a local real estate levy of 69 cents.
Mr. Cox’s first draft of expenditures for 1987-88 reflects spending plans exactly as submitted by the county’s various departments, boards and agencies. This preliminary document comes in time for what promises to be only the first of a series of budget trimming exercises: Wednesday’s work session on the School Board’s $3,621,027 request.
(The supervisors are scheduled to adopt the school budget at next Monday’s regular monthly board meeting. A public hearing last Wednesday on just the proposal for education expenditures lasted only eight minutes. Despite wide publicity that the increase in the 1987-88 school budget would mean approximately 17 cents more on the local tax rate, only a handful of people attended the hearing. The four who spoke - School Board Chairman Beverly Massie, Rappahannock County Education Association president Lynn Baines, Lee Bird and Diana Bird
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