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Budget
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Total education
budget:
$7,081,144
1992*
Total education
budget:
$12,096,934
2007 'Actjtntifl for infMfion Staff (#r#»pfitc/ft«v# Whtlt Adjusting lor inflation, the Rappahannock education budget is $5,015,790, or 70.percent, larger now than it was 15 years ago. County spending in the budget has increased by $4,252,034, or 105 percent.
expected to drop after Rappahannock’* “local coni|*)*ite index" (IX'I) i* rc*configured. Tfie xtate u*e* !,('I to determine how much money a *chool di*trict can put toward education, taking into con*ideration factor* *uch a* local property value* to oxtimate a juriwliction’* weulth. Rappahannock County and hcIiooI oflicial* have argutxJ that the factor* u*ed to compute IX'I *uggext Rappahannock can foot more of the. bill for education than the county actually can.
When Rappahannock i* a**ignnd a new IX’I thi* Hummer, the county will be eligible fbr le** xtate education funding. Hchool oflicial* have projected a reduction of anywhere between $.’JH 1.99,1 and $494,9HH.
While the proponed budget, which i* $.r>02 le** than the current budget, would buck the trend of incrcuHed xpending, it would increaxe county *pending by alxnit five (icrcent.
Anticipating the likely reduction in xtate fund*, Rappahannock County *U|»erintendorit l>r Robert Chapix-il protxmed an iricrea*e in county funding of $44«,.iMl for the 200H-2009 nchool year education budget
If Chappell’* pro|*»*ed increaxe in approved by the l*>ard of *u|*TViHor*,
See BUDGET, Page A3
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