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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 26, 1990                   TAG: 9004270322
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-8   EDITION: NORTH 
SOURCE: Mark Morrison
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

BOTETOURT BUDGET TAKES SHAPE

The Botetourt County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a $25.4-million budget for the 1990-91 fiscal year on Monday. The proposed budget is $1.9 million more than the budget for the current fiscal year.

The school system will get about 71 percent of the budget pie, receiving $17.5 million that includes a 5-percent pay raise for teachers.

Overall, the budget is a nearly 8.1 percent increase over the current budget and doesn't include any increases in real estate or personal property taxes.

The county was able to avoid raising taxes partly because of an estimated $250,000 it expects to generate in additional revenue from the county's 4-percent meals tax that will go into effect July 1.

Most of the $250,000 is earmarked for repairs to roofs of schools and for fire and rescue squad funding, which had been cut in the current budget.

County Administrator John Williamson said commercial and residential growth in Botetourt helped the fiscal picture.

He said the growth contributed significantly to added sales-tax and real-estate tax revenues.

At Monday's meeting, the supervisors also will interview two candidates for the Botetourt County School Board and hold a work session to discuss the county's proposed noise ordinance.

by CNB