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Budget
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■ increasing in part because of the State’s failure to adequately fund mandated programs.
Chairman Pete Estes said that he was irritated about the State’s lack of support to local jurisdictions.
Budget cut $315K
The budget forwarded by the School Board totaled $9,450,058.53, an increase of 12.53 percent over last year’s budget of $8,397,488.07. Most alarming to the Supervisors was the fact that this increase would have cost the taxpayers about an additional 13 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation, and raised the tax rate to nearly $1.00.
As Wakefield Supervisor Roger Welch pointed out at last week’s public hearing and again at the Monday night Budget Adoption meeting, that rate compares unfavorably with the rate in other nearby counties (e.g., Green at $0.76, Culpeper at $0.83, Madison at $0.72) and he suggested that “somewhere we have to find a place in the middle where we can get as much education as we can afford.’’
County Administrator John McCarthy had recommended a cut of $225,000 to the proposed budget to reduce the tax increase from 13 cents to approximately 5 cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation. He also suggested that the Board of Supervisors do as Dr.
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