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roughly parallels the rise in total value of real property in Rappahannock, which went from $218,034,560 in 1987 to an estimated $324,000,000 in 1988.
With the new assessments, this year’s budget would have required a tax rate of 47 cents, so the advertised rate of 52 cents represents a 10.6 percent increase and the hopedfor 50- cent levy a 6.3 percent increase.
Mr. Cox projects a general fund balance of $700,000 at the end of the fiscal year this June 30. Drawing $391,688 from the surplus and with a 1988-89 tax rate of 50 cents and expenses as outlined in the draft budget, he anticipates a balance of $308,000 in July 1989.
Trimming of departmental requests began at Thursday’s work session. Sheriff John Henry Woodward had asked for $10,000 in supplemental pay for dispatchers, intending $2,000 apiece for the five employees who double as matrons for female prisoners in the county jail.
The State Compensation Board, which pays law enforcement salaries, will not fund matron positions for Rappahannock because too few women are incarcerated here, Mr. McCarthy explained. However, if any female prisoners are to be held
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