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013-95 ------ --- _.~ ~.. ------ _.__.~.----- (\0\- o.ffYou:d BOlItD Of SUpEftV\sottS 1 costs haS been WfiEBEOS. the state share of public schoO steadi~Y dec~ining; and WfiEBEOS. hy 199' the state share fell to onlY ,8 percent of total echool costs in the commonwealth' and WBKOEOS. Virginia counties and cities have had to repeatedlY raiee local taxes in response to this shift in costs, and ~. localities face taxPayer revolts because of skY- rocket,ng property taxes while the state boasts about the lowest state sa~es tax in the united states; and than ~i t~e state pays no school construction costs, leSS support the st=t:rrn~:r::: ~tandsrds of gual~ty, and nothing to ~n use-value taxat~on; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT unanimous 1 a ' ,RESOLVED, the count f V' " for PUbliCYSChndoOloSv~rWhdelfm~nglY support an ' ies 0 1rg1n1a , an urther, 1ncrease in state aid BE IT RESOLVED state's ideal ' ' the counties of v' " equal to the f~~~a:hare ~f public school ~~~~~1a consider the governments combi do publ1C school e_ndOt to be an amount ne , and further, ~ ures of all local ,BE IT RESOLVED be g~ven to consi _,the counties of vi ' , ~~~i~~~rfng th~.r~~;t~: ~;~t. saleSr~~~'~s:'E:xth.t priority l.n the next fiscal U share of publi as the means RE year 0 c school oosts SOLVED th' , ~s 8th d ay of November , 1995. RESOLU'rI.O}il _~ __0" ......... ,.n> "'" pUB1.1c gdIllOlS 'RESTO'RE Fa.a-&~ l:)~ ..... RiChard G 0' . ~ck W. Harr' ~ngton Smith , Jr. James L . Longerbeam Robert M. Sager Jimmie K. Ellington Charles W. Orndoff, Sr. ',,- A COPY TESTE: John R. Riley, Jr. county Administrator RBSOLD'rZON NO. 013-95