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well not be here,” Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham said.

A fourth recommendation was that the state compensation board be required to approve the budgets of all the constitutional officers by June 1 of each year. This past year the Sheriffs Department budget wasn’t approved until June 21, and the supervisors had to act on the whole county budget before July 1. “I guess this will be an annual recommendation,” Mr. McCarthy said.

Another recommendation had to do with health insurance for county employees. Next year constitutional officers and their assistants as well as school system employees will be eligible to participate in insurance with all state employees. That will leave Mr. McCarthy and a few other county employees such as the landfill operator, the dog warden, the Sperryville sewage treatment plant operator and the building inspector outside the group.

The supervisors approved a recommendation that they be able to participate in the state plan also.

Another recommendation was support for the system of transferring development rights (TDR’s). Mr. McCarthy recommended that Rappahannock’s supervisors support legislation authorizing TDR’s on a local option basis for all localities. This would allow a landowner in a part of the county that the planners didn’t want to see developed to sell his development rights to a landowner in a part of the county that was more suited for growth. Loudoun County has been seeking such power, Mr. McCarthy said.

“What I’m suggesting is that I don’t see using it in Rappahannock, but we shouldn’t stand in its way,” he said. “It’s a nod to Loudoun. Loudoun’s representative helped us last year.”

The board also approved support for a “bottle bill” and for regional recycling efforts. Rappahannock, like other localities in Virginia is mandated by the state to recycle more and more of its trash, up to 25 percent by 1995.

“I concur,” Col. Bingham said. “We need more than our individual recycling efforts. We need to encourage regional waste management systems. The place for something like this to be is Prince William or Fauquier County. The landfill could last 50 years.”

Hampton District representative Mike Massie said he supported regional recycling, but not regional landfills. “A regional landfill would be put in the least populated area, which is Rappahannock,” he said.

“We’re wasting time recycling on an individual basis,” Col. Bingham said. “It’s labor intensive, and the impact on the landfill facility is marginal.”