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needed another $30,500. Buying the tank all at once would save $11,100 in finance charges, he said.

Earlier Treasurer Frances Foster noted that $21,600 had been returned to the county from last year’s school budget. She suggested that it be set aside in a school construction fund for a middle school. The supervisors favored using this fund to cover capital expenses for schools, expenses such as the tank, but Dr. Gangel said he believed most of that money was carryover of funds for federal programs and flow-through money for Piedmont Technical School.

The supervisors voted to appropriate money to buy the vault, and Dr. Gangel said he would come back with information on how much of the surplus from last year’s budget would be available for it.

Hampton District representative Mike Massie said Mrs. Foster’s idea was a good one. “We need to think about setting money aside for that day when we have to think about getting a new school,” he said.

The supervisors also voted to adopt new fees for those applying for land use taxation. The fees are designed to cover the cost to the Commissioner of Revenue’s Office to process the applications.

The filing fee, which is paid at the beginning of each assessment period, has been $5 per applicant per year. Under the new fee schedule it will go to $6.50 per parcel per year. This higher fee is also supposed to cover a portion of the cost of computerizing the records in the Commissioner of Revenue and Treasurer’s offices.

Following a joint pu’ lie h aring with the Town Council in the evening the town and county adopted a resolution to include two parcels from the LOMP subdivision entirely in the town and to add a portion of a parcel owned by Newbill Miller if it turns out to be split by the towncounty boundary.

Mr. Miller said he thought the maps were showing at least one concrete monument in the wrong place. He said he believed his lot was already in the town, but if a portion of it is outside, he wants it in the town.

Claybert Smoot said that the Town Council had told him it could not guarantee that if he moved his land inside the town he would get another building lot. He said if he couldn’t get a lot, he preferred to leave part of his land in the county. No other landowners spoke at the hearing, and the board and council agreed not to add portions of lots to the town unless the owners request it.

Also following the evening public hearing the supervisors decided to wait another 60 days before voting on a county seal. Thomas Tepper’s design with a tractor as the crown of a shield had gathered the most support at a straw poll in Amissville.

The state seal is currently used on county stationery. It is the size of a quarter. “If you are trying to depict any one of these in a seal the size of a quarter, you will lose some detail,” board chairman Hubert Gilkey said.

The extended time period will allow others to submit entries and those who have already sent in designs to modify them if they wish.

At Monday’s meeting the supervisors also learned that the Justice Department had replied to the county’s redistricting plan saying that the Attorney General has no objections at this time.

‘That’s as close to approval as you’re going to get,” County Admin