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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
At its work session Monday evening, the Board of Supervisors cut 6.35 cents from a proposed 77-cent real estate tax rate per $100 assessed value.
That 77-cent rate is the one which accountant Wally Cox told the supervisors last Thursday would be needed to fund all county budget requests and rebuild the surplus.
The cuts made Monday were a total of $215,452 from the expenditures portion of the budget of $6.7 million, up $664,870 from the current budget of $6.1 million. An additional $332,557 is needed to rebuild the general fund balance which was completely depleted by the landfill, Mr. Cox said.
The proposed 25-cent increase (now cut to 18.65 cents) over the current rate of 52 cents broke down to 12 cents extra to fund all the requests in the school budget and three cents extra for the Sheriffs Department, including the proposed addition to the county jail.
Everything else would be about even, Mr. Cox said. In addition 10 cents would be needed to bring the county reserves up to five percent of the operating budget, he said. This assumes, he added, that the perso^ul property tax stays at its current rate of $2.90 per $100.
At Monday’s work session following the public hearing on the school budget, that budget was cut $149,044, subtracting 4.53 cents from the 12 cent proposed increase for the schools.
Another $59,169 was cut from the general county budget, but $5,704 was also added. An additional $10,560 savings can be realized if the board approves County Administrator John McCarthy’s suggestion to cut funding for health insurance for county employees from the $1,620 in Mr. Cox’s budget, which would pay the full cost of a single subscriber’s premium, to $1,300 apiece.
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