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Closing Dumpsters
A majority of the Board of Supervisors seems determined to , ignore the protests of those opposed to the decision to close the ; dumpsters at Huntly and Scrabble.
However, the board continues to meet in executive session to discuss, among other things, “the acquisition of real property for public purposes.” Presumably that is intended to be a discussion about acquiring property to be used as a central collection, point for trash and recyclables, but following each such secret meeting the ; board announces that no action was taken. , *. Most of those who spoke at Monday afternoon’s session sup• ported the idea of limiting use of the dumpsters to county citizens and manning and fencing the sites for that purpose and to keep such things as construction debris out, but they clearly fear closing the dumpster sites altogether will lead to greatly increased illegal dumping, and most opposed the inconvenience of having to take all trash to the landfill.
One suggestion was to have dumpsters and recycling centers at each of the fire halls. The supervisors seemed to pick up on the recycling centers part of this but ignored the dumpsters. The more locations there are where people can take all their trash, the more likely they are to separate trash into what can be recycled and what can not.
In a related story several people are working together to clean up an old illegal dump in Chester Gap. Even with a dumpster in Huntly several people in Chester Gap continue to throw trash in their own neighborhood. How many more such sites will crop up if the supervisors do not find a better solution than closing the dumpsters and forcing everyone to take their trash to the landfill or pay someone else to do so?
School Census
Beginning next week, school census takers will be out trying to visit every house in the county to Count every child who will be five by the end of this year but not yet 20.
A great deal of money depends on getting every child counted. From 1 percent of the state sales tax the county receives more than $500 per school aged child per year to be used for public education. That money comes to the county whether the child is enrolled in public school, attends a private school or- is home schooled.
The. state calculates the cost of providing public education in Rappahannock County according to the state’s Standards of Quality. Then it subtracts the amount the county will feceive from the sales tax before it calculates what school aid the county will receive from the state. The cost once the sales tax has been subtracted is split between the county taxpayers and the state according to the Local Composite Index, with the state paying 26 cents on the dollar and the county 74 cents. ‘ Parents unhappy with the public schools for whatever reason who believe they can hurt the schools by not having their children counted in the census are only hurting themselves as taxpay. ers.
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