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Del. Wood said he knows that getting such a bill passed won’t be easy. State officials will want to keep the lottery money in the general fund in Richmond, and other counties and cities where lots of lottery tickets are sold feel it should be< returned to localities based on point of sale; Still Del. Wood feels passing such a bill will be one way to begin to address the issue of “educational disparity” and to relieve the localities of some of the burden of taxing to support schools.
In the last session he was able to help get recordation fees returned to the localities for education or transportation. He said that should bring about $35,000 to Rappahannock this year, and it should double next year, and increase to about $170,000 the following year.
Two of Del. Wood’s primary projects are the Fauquier campus of Lord Fairfax Community College and the agricultural testing lab in Warrenton. He noted that the first version of the last budget eliminated funding for the lab which serves farmers in many surrounding counties. He said he had managed to get partial funding restored with the difference made up from user fees, and now his goal is to get funds to replace the lab building with a new building in Warrenton.
On the Fauquier campus of LFCC, Del. Wood said it is now included in the community college '' funding system, and in the upcoming ‘ session he hopes to get $175,000 for •; planning for buildings to house the ! • campus somewhere in the general ; area of The Bam, where classes are taught now.
Del. Wood defended his vote for the new office building to house the . state lottery. He noted that lottery !; offices will take up only 55 percent of the office space and that six other
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