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is a “pittance, not a significant amount of money.
“Though he talked about that specifically,” Dr. Gangel said, “in terms of our school system, if that’s all the state takes away, I’d be extremely pleased.”
Sheriff John Henry Woodward said Monday that he has not been able to determine whether or not his budget will be affected. He called the state Compensation Board in Richmond seeking answers, but got none. They were “unclear about whether it affects constitutional officers and their budgets or just state employees,” the sheriff said.
Constitutional officers, including sheriffs, treasurers and Commonwealth’s attorneys, as well as their department budgets, are funded from a lump sum appropriation by the General Assembly to the Compensation Board. The Compensation Board doles out the money to localities under a formula which includes population and number of employees in each department.
He added that he was told the Compensation Board has scheduled a meeting with top finance officials to resolve questions about whether the governor’s plan affects constitutional officers and their budgets, or just state employees.
Mr. McCarthy said Tuesday evening that the officials in Charlottesville were told the two percent raise for constitutional officers and their staffs, scheduled for January, 1991, “will not happen.” Mr. McCarthy said that officials from Northern Virginia were particularly upset at the governor’s decision to keep the real estate recordation taxes, which in some larger counties amount to several million dollars each year.
Northern Virginia, he explained, supported the huge project to overhaul U.S. 58 in Southside on the condition that the real estate recordation fees be returned to localities, specifically to help the burgeoning Northern Virginia counties with their transportation needs. Now, Mr. McCarthy said, they are “hopping mad” about what they regard as Richmond “backstabbing” local governments by taking the recordation fees back to help balance the state budget.
And although the recordation fees represent a relatively modest sum in a small county like Rappahannock, Mr. MeCarthy said he shares the frustration of other local officials caught in Richmond’s budget squeeze. “It is offensive to have someone else put their fiscal house in order by putting mine into disarray.”
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