Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 1, 1993 TAG: 9307010177
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE LENGTH: Short
The board voted to increase the real estate tax to 58 cents per $100 assessed valuation. Taxes on personal property, machinery and tools and merchant's capital will stay the same.
And even the increase is only half what was advertised in the county's 1993-94 budget. A 4-cent increase was planned and generally supported at three public hearings the county held in different parts of the county on its budget proposal.
Supervisor Mark Munsey moved that the increase, which would have raised about $240,000, be cut in half and that $120,000 from county reserves be put into the fire-needs fund.
Supervisor John Davis said that would work this year but next year it would take either annual transfers of $120,000 from reserves to meet the needs list drawn up by the county, or the other two cents would have to be added. But he joined the rest of the board in supporting Munsey's motion.
The supervisors agreed to pay for a new car for the Sheriff's Office, especially after learning that the office was returning $181,915 to the county from its 1992-93 budget.
Sheriff Wayne Pike said he was able to get some funding from other sources for expenses that would have had to be paid for by local taxes. "It's my tax money, too," he said.
The county hired Bill Rogg for the newly created position of county engineer. Rogg, chosen from eight finalists from four states, had been the engineer for Wytheville. - Southwest bureau
by CNB