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throughout the state are looking at this small county in education,” he added. He said he had won his seat promising to improve the schools. He gave major credit for the improvement to School Superintendent David Gangel and the School Board, but added, “The people wanted this to come about, and we’re going to continue to progress.”
Col. Bingham said the major challenge to the county is “the threat of rapid development.”
He added that the current recession has put that threat off for “five or 10 years.”
“I am not for development,” he said. “That’s why my wife and I moved out here, but the dichotomy between regular taxation and land use taxation bothers me. We cannot subsidize the net worth of large landowners.”
He suggested that one way to handle land use taxation with the new assessment would be to raise land use values by the same percentage that overall real estate values have increased since the last reassessment.
Hampton District’s representative, Michael M. Massie, 35, is also completing his first term on the board.
A farmer, Mr. Massie has lived all his life in Rappahannock. He represents the board on the Planning Commission.
Mr. Massie said serving on the board is his way of contributing to the county. “I feel fortunate to live and work here,” he said. “One of the things that makes Rappahannock such a great place to live is the tremendous amount of volunteer effort.”
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