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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
County Administrator John McCarthy gave the Board of Supervisors a preliminary $9.6 million budget with just iover $182,000 more in spending than income under current tax rates at Monday ’s meeting. ^ The budget is actually down from last year’s $10.2 million budget because last year’s budget included half the $1.6 million cost of putting the new cell in at the landfill.
The supervisors set 7 p.m. on Monday, April 29, at the high school auditorium as the date for a public hearing on the school budget which accounts for 65 percent of the total county budget.
Following that public hearing the supervisors will have work sessions to determine how much to cut the budget or raise tax rates. They will approve a school budget at their regular meeting May 6.
In his presentation Mr. McCarthy said the budget will change because many figures are not final yet. He said he did not expect any of the changes to be major.
The supervisors also heard a presentation by Richard Funk of dBF Associates on proposals for building a vocational education wing bn the high school. They also agreed to visit Carver-Piedmont Vocational Center April 11.
They approved a proposal to have building inspector Richie Burke act as E-911 coordinator. Mr. Burke will be paid just under $7,000 for the extra position, and other costs of his office will be split between the building inspector budget and E-911 budget. Additional costs for keeping the E-911 data base up to date will mean a cost of about $3,500 per month, Mr.McCarthy estimated.
The Fire and Rescue Association had strongly recommended appointing Mr. Burke to the position noting his long service as chief of the Sperryville Fire Department, his familiarity as building inspector with where new houses are being built which will have to be added to the E-911 data base, and the convenience of his office to other county gov-. emment offices.
Mr. McCarthy said the cost of maintaining E-911 with Mr. Burke as coordinator could be covered by a fee of $1.10 per telephone per month, but he recommended the current $2 per month surcharge for E-911 be reduced to $1.30 to ppwiHe for unexpected expenses. He said theboard could look at the surcharge again in October to see if it could be reduced further.
The board voted to reduce it to $1.50 and look at the charge again in October. Chairman Hubert Gilkey said, “We know that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”
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