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big the pound.
Mr. McCarthy said that before the county had its own pound the bill to the kennel in Fauquier County that was keeping Rappahannock’s dogs was running between $450 and $500 per month.
Once the pound was built, he said he contracted with the Rappahannock Animal Welfare League to care for the dogs, offering them $400 per month.
He said the pound was handling more dogs and arranging adoptions. “It’s costing less per dog,” he said.
Mr. Estes asked about raising the fee for dog tags.
Treasurer Frances Foster said people were already complaining about having to pay $5 for a tag for an unsexed dog.
Chairman Hubert Gilkey suggested the fee for unsexed dogs remain as is and the tag for other dogs be raised.
“If the cost keeps going up, people won’t buy them,” Mrs. Foster said.
Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham asked if fees for the land use program were covering the cost to the Commissioner of Revenue’s office.
Commissioner Beverly Atkins said she didn’t know the answer to the question. She said to find out it would be necessary to go back to 1982 and pull records for all the years from then to the present. She explained that the fees are highest the first time a landowner applies and are lower when her office only has to revalidate the claim.
Miss Atkins suggested one way to get more in fees would be to require a landowner to apply separately for each parcel of land. When a landowner applies with one fee for three parcels her office has to do three times as much work as for one parcel, she said.
Two years ago the tax rate was increased from 52 cents per hundred to 75 cents. At that time almost all of
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