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the House version of the bill, H.B. 936, to the Committee on Appropriations with a 21-1 vote.
Rappahannock representative Delegate Todd Gilbert, presented the bill to the committee.
“Rappahannock County is probably the most beautiful part of my district, by far. It is serene ... I refer to it often as a ‘utopia,"' Delegate Gilbert told the Education Committee.
“As beautiful as it is, and as wealthy as it is perceived to be, Rappahannock County has no real tax base to speak of other than that which is attributed to the landowners," Gilbert said. “They don’t have any grocery store's, they don’t have any drug stores, they don’t have any stop lights, they don’t have any companies or corporations or factories.”
“All of the tax burden of the school system ends up falling on the backs of the landowners - all of which are not wealthy, landed-gentry, many of whom own small houses," Gilbert said. “They have to commute every day out of the county to work, and the burden of the schools is placed on those folks."
The House Committee on Appropriations will look at the bill’s financial impact.
“I thinks its going to come down to whether there’s money to pay for it," Gilbert said in a phone interview.
The bill is estimated to cost $8 million in fiscal year 2009 and $8.2 million in fiscal year 2010, according to the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget.
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