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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