Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 5, 1994 TAG: 9405050120
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NEW CASTLE LENGTH: Medium
The supervisors want to reduce the 70-cent rate to 58 cents per $100 of assessed property value.
Although the tax rate is being reduced, Supervisors Chairman Zane M. Jones said he expects most county property owners will have to pay more in taxes because the overall property assessment this year increased from about $140 million to $199 million. The county does a reassessment every six years.
The proposed budget is $4,884,377, up from $4,493,800 for this fiscal year. It includes a reduction in county administration costs because of the reassessment. The proposed administration costs - which include employee salaries, animal control, building inspections, accounting and auditing - are $210,628, down from $240,119 this fiscal year.
The biggest share of the budget, $3.3 million, will go to finance schools. This is about $300,000 more than the current funding, but about $41,000 less than the School Board requested.
The second largest share - $602,144, up from $532,922 - would go to finance law enforcement, courts and constitutional officers.
The budget includes $346,883, up from $319,409, for health and welfare expenses and $235,465, up from $215,065, for public works - including highway maintenance and construction, waste disposal and general maintenance of government property.
The state will contribute $2.9 million of the revenue in the new budget, and the federal government will put in $278,000. Local sources would provide $1.6 million, according to the proposal that County Administrator Richard Flora submitted to the supervisors.
In the 1993-94 budget the local share is $1.5 million, the state share $2.6 million and the federal share is $255,000.
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