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Following an executive session at the close of last Thursday's budget meeting. the Rappahannock supervisors voted unanimously to create the position of county administrator and named .John McCarthy to the post, effective July 1, at an annual salary of $32,000.
Mr. McCarthy is a 1986 graduate of the University of Virginia with a master’s degree in planning and a former planning technician with the Albemarle County Planning Department. He has been Rappahannock’s zoning administrator and administrative assistant to the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors since June 15, 1986. The dual job paid $27,500, which makes the salary for county administrator a 16.3 percent increase over what Mr. McCarthy is currently receiving.
As county administrator, he will continue handling the duties of zoning administrator under the terms of his proposed contract with the county. The contract extends for two years with a third option year, and requires that Mr. McCarthy make his residence in Rappahannock within two years. Currently, he lives with his family on a farm near Warrenton. ■ It was generally recognized •that as administrative assistant, Mr. McCarthy was on trial and in training to be county administrator. For the past two years, he has essentially performed the duties of a county administrator as outlined in the Virginia Code.
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