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A briefcase can hold $1
^^-million dollars. It has 'ccn proven. You can put H .01)0 one-hundred dollar H s lns>de a large briefcase measuring 13 inches high, ■1H oiches long and 5 1/4 inches thick.
1 his means Rappahannock County’s lat‘‘st budget of nearly $16 million could fit in 16 briefcas,‘f' These could easily sit on lhe table used by the Board of Supervisors upstairs in the courtroom where they meet, in the courthouse. Ten briefcases would be for the school system.
lake another county: i'airfax. Its new budget is almost $2.6 billion, roughly 163 times the size of ours. Now, a billion dollars involves 1,000 briefcases, each with a million dollars inside. Its budget needs 2.600 briefcases. The briefcases would cover the entire floor of our courtroom, spill down the stairway, out the front door and down the sidewalk to Gay Street.
We need a new benchmark: Gay Street.
Here I am on Gay Street which is 32 feet wide for the most part. No cars around. I'm lining up briefcases. They are standing up, endto-end, in a straight line across the road, 20 of them in all, with a little space between each —$20 million in a line. Fairfax County’s budget would fill the street chock-a-block with briefcases for the length of about four parked cars. Rappahannock County’s budget wouldn’t even make one line across the street,
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