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raised?
Answer; “According to John McCarthy; revoking land use does not increase revenue, it just changes who pays.”
Question: How much are rising taxes the result of a rising RCPS budget ?
Answer: “While until this year the school budget increased gradually for a number of years, the RCPS share of local revenue has steadily decreased, from a high of over 65% in FY 2004 to under 53% for FY 08. That’s because both the county’s revenue and the county’s other expenditures have risen faster than the RCPS budget.”
Jackson District representative Wesley Mills said he hoped that the information could help at the board of supervisors’ April 25 public hearing on the proposed education budget.
Board approves
retirement plan
At its meeting the school board also approved a pilot program that would give retired school staff an opportunity to receive free medical coverage.
Currently the schools pay 50 percent of insui* ance costs for retired staff
through federal or state grants or through private fond raising
McCarthy is also proposing a 3-percent cost-of-living increase for all county employees and constitutional officers in the county Despite cuts in state aid to constitutional officers, McCarthy said the pay raises can be funded by savings on health insurance and retirement costs along with increasing revenues at existing levels of taxation.
56.3%