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visors praised the schools and Superintendent Robert Chappell for keeping costs down, although this year’s school budget is up almost 5 percent from last year. In contrast, the entire county budget has increased by almost 20 percent for fiscal 2007. However, at the June 5 public meeting, several members of the public commented that the schools were getting too much money, and that the money they received was being ill spent.
“We need to start saying no. I think our teachers are underworked and overpayed,” said Roger Cordanian.
Unfortunately for Rappahannock citizens who want the county to spend less on the schools, the school budget has already been' approved, making it very difficult for the Supervisors to alter it. At the June 5 public hearing, Supervisor Ron Frazier responded to criticism of the school budget by asking the standing room only gathering, “Where was this crowd when we had the school budget hearings?”
Three cents per $100 has been set aside to pay for the construction of new county offices on property behind the Rappahannock National Bank on US-211. The BOS voted in March to purchase 1.8 acres there at a cost of $111,672. The $.03 rate hike is intended to pay for the office building the county will erect there, expected to cost almost $2 million defrayed over several years. According to County Administrator John McCarthy, the purpose of the new offices is to save taxpayer money in the long term, since many county
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