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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock’s supervisors hope to set a tax rate of 50 cents for 1988-89, but whether they will trim two cents from the advertised levy of 52 cents depends largely on the landfill.
As it now stands, the county’s proposed $0.5 million budget includes $052,000 for refuse collection, landfill construction, and landfill operation combined. Another $00,000 — the revenue generated by two cents on the rate —is ready for allocation to solid waste disposal pending the operational cost estimates to be received from engineer Leonard Joyce this Thursday and the bids on landfill construction to be opened next Friday.
The draft budget allocates $150,000 specifically for refuse collection, a decrease of 22 percent over that same line item for this year. "We’re assuming our hauling costs will be less,” said administrative assistant John McCarthy, adding that only two dumpster sites will be maintained once the landfill opens, which is anticipated to happen this summer.
Currently, Rappahannock's trash is being hauled to the Culpeper landfill, and under the terms of the agreement between the two counties, Rappahannock is to take three loads for every two it sends, plus pay transport costs, at some point in the future. “But since Culpeper County doesn’t have any dumpsters now, we’re unsure when we’ll be obligated to take and haul their trash. It may not happen this coming fiscal year,” Mr. McCarthy said.
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