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Agents’ salaries are funded two-thirds by the state and and one-third by the county, with funds for partial office space, mileage, office equipment coming from state funds.
“About half of the total money comes from the county,” said Mr. Williams, adding in larger counties such as Fairfax County, the county provides agents beyond the number allocated by Virginia Tech.
“Now, they are proposing some drastic cuts,” he said.
“We are not sure where the cuts will occur,” Mr. Williams said, adding in the “five county cluster, three 4-H agents and one home economic agents will be relocated.”
Presently, Rappahannock County has two agents while Orange and Madison are assigned three and Fauguier and Culpeper counties are assigned five.
Madison at present has two agents as one agent has not been replaced since Jim Saunders resigned last year. Culpeper County, also, lacks one agent since the retirement of Mason Hutcheson in 1990.
In Planning District 9, none of the 16 agents were of retirement age this year, and none were of age to take advantage of early retirement programs offered by the state.
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