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The approved school system’s budget of $11,813,799 for fiscal 2009 represents a 2.3 percent decrease from last year's budget of $12, 096,934. As a total percentage of the county's total budget. the school budget is also decreasing. Last year, the school budget accounted for 59.6 percent of total county expenditures. This year, the now approved budget will garner a little more than 53 percent. Also on the agenda
Story Project: Lisa Ramey was introduced as the new project director for the Rappahannock Story Project. An innovative undertaking, and one supported by not only the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community and Ki Arts, the final product will be a compilation of stories from Rappahannock citizens. Those stories will become an acfjunct part of the county's comprehensive plan and will help craft the county's “vision for the future.”
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