015-95
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION
RESTORE FAIR SHARE STATE AID FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WHEREAS. the state share of public school costs has been
steadily declining; and
WHEREAS. by 1994 the state share fell to only 38 percent of
total school costs in the Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Virginia counties and cities have had to repeatedly
raise local taxes in response to this shift in costs; and
WHEREAS, the state pays no school construction costs, less
than its full share of the standards of quality, and nothing to
support the state interest in use-value taxation;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the counties of Virginia
unanimously support an increase in state aid for public schools;
and further,
BE IT RESOLVED, the counties of Virginia consider the
state's ideal fair share of public school costs to be an amount
equal to the total public school expenditures of all local
governments combined; and further,
BE IT RESOLVED. the counties of virginia urge that priority
be given to considering the state sales and use tax as the means
for restoring the state's fair share of public school costs
beginning in the next fiscal year.
RESOLVED, this 13th day of December, 1995.
RiChard G. Dick Aye Robert M. Sager Aye
w. Harrington smith, Jr. Ave Jimmie K. Ellington Aye
James L. Longerbeam Absent Charles w. Orndoff, Sr. Ave
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county Administrator
RESOLUTION NO. 015-95