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percent over the current appropriation for education.
At a four-hour work session last Thursday, the supervisors totally eliminated local support for four “welfare aids” and trimmed an additional $7,000 from the Sheriffs Department’s request for 1988-89.
Dropped completely from next year’s budget were:
• $14,000 for FORE, the Remington workshop that provides job training for the mentally and physically handicapped, including four clients from Rappahannock County whose van transportation alone costs $5,600 annually. Butch Zindel, Rappahannock’s representative on the FORE board, explained that declining federal aid and the termination of support from the Community Services Board have placed the non-profit workshop in financi * jeopardy.
The training program has “taken a lot of people off the welfare rolls and made tax paying citizens out of them,” he said, pointing to the fiscal benefits this brings to local communities. According to Mr. Zindel, Culpeper County is expected to appropriate around $35,000 for FORE this year and Fauquier County about $60,000. While they eliminated the entire appropriation sought by the handicapped workshop, Rappahannock’s supervisors did agree to ask the Community Services Board to contribute $400 of its $17,744 allocation from Rappa
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