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Funding
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Schools Superintendent Dr. Robert Chappell also said the state’s current financial predicament tempered hopes to receive more of a boost for education.
“The state is in a fiscal crisis of its own and our sense and the sense of our friends in Richmond is that legislators are very edgy about doing anything that would increase cost to the state,” he said.
Chappell said county and school officials will ask for more money later if the bills are signed into law.
To me that’s a given ,” he said.
Partnering
In the meantime, Chappell is looking to form partnerships with adjacent counties to cut costs.
The bills before the General Assembly would make Rappahannock eligible to enter into such agreements, but with theadded bonus that -Rappa-1 hannock would receive state aid according to the partnering county’s local composite index (LCI>, which is used to determine how much a county can contribute to education funding. Largely because of high property values, Rappahannock has a high LCI and would benefit from adopting the LCI of a neighboring jurisdiction.
Chappell said such partnerships, regardless of whether Rappahannock could adopt the neighboring jurisdiction's LCI, would offer cost savings.
“We’re not pursuing these just to get the lower LCI,” he said. “We’re pursuing it in a genuine effort to save the schools and the taxpayers some money.”
Chappell said school officials have been discussing partnering agreements with neighboring jurisdictions since November.
“We’re exploring a wide range of possible areas where we could share services,” he said.
Chappell would not comment on which neighboring jurisdiction the county might partner with, nor about what
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