
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990                   TAG: 9006010590
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-10   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW CASTLE                                LENGTH: Short

HEARING PLANNED ON PROPOSED CRAIG BUDGET

The Craig County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing Monday on a proposed budget that contains a 5-cent real-estate tax increase to cover a state-mandated salary increase for teachers and pay raises for other school personnel.

The 3:30 p.m. hearing will be in the county courthouse in New Castle.

The budget for fiscal 1990-91 totals $4,109,243, and education will get 70.4 percent of it.

The real-estate levy would go up 5 cents to 70 cents for each $100 property assessment, and the personal property levy would increase 20 cents to $2.20 for each $100 assessment.

Jeffrey Johnson, county administrator, said the 5-cent increase in the real estate levy is expected to generate $50,000, all of which must go to cover a state-required 5 percent teacher pay increase.

The increased personal-property levy is expected to bring in $16,000 more, which must go to cover pay increases for school personnel other than teachers, he said.

While education would get the bulk of the budget, 10 percent of it would go to finance public safety. The constitutional officers would get 6.1 percent, health and welfare 6 percent, public works 3.1 percent with 1 percent each going to the courts, community development and administration.

by CNB