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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors considered what effect the new state budr get is likely to have on the county at Monday’s meeting.
County Administrator John McCarthy said that there are two proposals in the budget that will affect the county if they are in the final budget. One would enact a $10 per ton tipping fee for trash for every landfill in the state. $3.50 of the fee would go to the state, which would retain 4 percent and ^return the rest to the localities in block grants based on “fiscal stress.”
Mr. McCarthy noted that because Rappahannock County is rated quite wealthy on the state’s local composite index of ability to fund education, the county would be unlikely to ever qualify for these funds. $6.50 of the fee would be retained by the locality with the landfill.
Mr. McCarthy said governorelect George Allen said this is a “hidden tax” but hasn’t said he will veto it.
Board members objected to this proposed fee. %
“I think it’s ludicrous to make this proposal,” Chairman Hubert Gilkey said. “It’s another way for the bureaucracy to get bigger and bigger.
Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham agreed. “You’re talking about a whole lot of money,” he said.
Another proposal in outgoing Governor Douglas Wilder’s budget would eliminate state funds from the compensation board for fringe benefits for constitutional officers and their assistants. Instead there would be an increase in the sheriffs processing fees for papers served with a larger portion retained by the locality.
Mr. McCarthy said Sheriff John Henry Woodward is trying to deter
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