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Our school superintendent, Bob Chappell, has voluntarily foregone any salary increase in the past two years of tight school budgets, and his $108,000 annual salary is the lowest of any on the list. Sure, he runs a small school division with just over 900 students, but the demands of the job are enormous, and would hardly be more if the schools had twice as many students.
Our sheriff, Connie Compton Smith, probably makes less than some of the crooks she catches. Her $64,798 annual salary is not only lowest on the list, but it's less than Rappahannock County Public Schools pays to a well-experienced assistant principal (who can earn as much as $83,118).
The guys who really make the heavyweight decisions in Rappahannock- our Board of Supervisorsseem to pride themselves on being the lowest-paid county supervisors in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Four members of the five-man board earn only $200 a month—that's just $2,400 a year; the chairman, Bob Anderson, earns $4,800.
Can you imagine putting up with the long meetings, late-night phone calls, and no-win decisions that supervisors routinely face for $2,400 or $4,800 a year? We re lucky that somebody wants to do the job - and it certainly isn't for the pay.
So, for all that we gripe about government and its ways, once in a while we have to remind ourselves that a bunch of our neighbors are knocking themselves out to serve the citizens here at relatively low pay. Not that we want to pay much more, mind you, but at least we can say thanks to these public servants for a job well done.
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