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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The county’s Board of Supervisors appears ready to adopt a tax rate of 77 cents per one hundred dollars assessed value on real estate, an increase of two cents over the current rate of 75 cents.
However, accountant Wally Cox, who prepared the county’s budget for next year, told the board “My recommendation is to keep it at 75 cents.”
Hampton District representative Mike Massie pointed out that that figure would mean that the county would be spending about $60,000 more than was being raised in taxes. “We put a heck of a burden on the people trying to build that surplus up, and I want to keep it there,” he said.
“I’m not in favor of raising taxes any more than we have to,” Chairman Hubert Gilkey said. “It seems to be always something that creeps up and jumps on your back.”
County Administrator John McCarthy said that he anticipated continued expenses to the county from decreased revenue from the state. The JLARC formula will continue to add $20,000 per year to the budget for the Health Department and unknown increases may be coming from decreased state funding for constitutional officers.
Earlier the supervisors voted to add $3,600 to the budget to rent the basement of the Kramer and Eiland building for an office for the building inspector. They also
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