Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 6, 1993 TAG: 9305060427
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NEW CASTLE LENGTH: Medium
The hearings will be at 7:30 p.m. in the county courthouse in New Castle.
The School Board appointment will be for the at-large seat now held by Helen Abbott Looney. Her term expires the end of June.
Craig County residents interested in applying for the seat must file a letter of interest with the county administrator's office by noon May 14.
Supervisors will interview applicants June 7 and choose one June 15.
The budget hearing will give citizens a chance to comment before the supervisors take final action on the proposed budget, which is about $200,000 more than the one for the current fiscal year. The proposed $4,469,411 budget is balanced and would require no increase in taxes.
Most of the approximately $200,000 increase comes from state funds, mostly for schools.
The state's share of the new budget would amount to $2.6 million, compared with $2.4 million in the current budget.
Local taxes are expected to generate $1.5 million, compared to $1.4 million in the current year.
Revenue from the federal government, however, will take a slight drop - $255,000, compared with $257,000 in the current year.
On the expenditure side, public schools will take the bulk of spending. According to the proposal, schools will get $2.8 million, compared with $2.7 million this year.
The same operations that take the biggest share of the current budget also would get the biggest share next year.
They are the Sheriff's Department, which would get $314,276 in the new budget; social services, $281,443; administration, $262,885; payments toward school debts, $189,191; and trash removal, $152,800.
Those totals are nearly the same as what those departments are getting this year.
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