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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
Rappahannock County taxpayers may be asked to come up with an additional $500,000 just to keep the school budget next year funded at the same level in terms of employees and programs it is now because of the county’s higher Local Composite Index (LCI) and a proposal to change the way cost of living adjustments for the state’s retirees are paid for.
The LCI is recomputed every two years. For the past two years the county’s LCI has been .642. For the coming two-year period it is .7411, meaning the county is^considered even wealthier than it wasktwo years ago.
School Superintendent David. Gangel said in a coijraarison between this year and next yearholding enrollment at 1,010 for the two-year period the new composite indent will mean Rappahannock County\receives $360,000 less in total state aid including sales tax, a decrease of 18.1 percent.
Increased enrollment will result in some increased state aid, but not nearly enough to make up for the change in the LCI. Enough increased enroll
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