Evening star., 1944-01-06
Fairfax Supervisors
Seek Restoration Of
County Officers Pay
Committee Meets Today
With Stote Compensation
Board on Cuts

A committee representing the Fair.
fax County Board Of Supervisors was
scheduled to confer with the State
Compensation Commission at Rich
mond today concerning a request
that salaries for county officers be
restored to figures originally recon-
mended by the board.
The committee, consisting OF G,
Wallace Carper, newly reelected
chairman Of the board, and Maurice
w. Fox, Burns T. Gibson and John
T. Blincoe, was authorized yesterday
to meet with the commission after
q report from the commission dis
closed that salaries OF the commits
sioner Of revenue, the treasurer and
the Commonwealth's Attorney had
been set below the boards recon-
mended figures.
Under Virginia law, the State
Compensation Commission fixes the
salaries Of all county officers after
receiving recommendations from
boards Of supervisors. In Fairfax
County, however, the clerks ONCE
remains on the fee system, with the
clerk limited to $7,l0o a year.
Cuts Outlined. --.-
As fixed by the Compensation
Commission, the commissioner of
revenue would receive a $1,000 salary
and $17,280 for offlce expenses, in
cluding the salaries Of four deputies.
This represents a cut of $2,780 in
once allowance under the amount
requested by the board.
A request for $1,000 salary and
$l7,029.52 office allowance for tho
treasurer was cut to $500 salary
and $13,545.32 ONCE allowance.
While salary increase of $40o was
granted the commonwealth's attor.
ney, raising his salary to $4,000 q
year, request to raise office allow
ance from $7,700 to 5000 was de-
MED. The salary of the sheriff
remains at $4,000, with $7,724 al.
lowed for deputies.
Both Commissioner of Revenue
James U. Kincheloe and Treasurer
Lewis Coyner said that at present
salary levels they will be unable to
retain trained workers. They said
they could not compete with Gov
ernment agencies, which pay typists
as much as sl,700 a year to start.
Tax Legislation Sought.
| The board requested Fairfax rep.
resentatives in the General Assem-
bly, to seek legislation changing the
present State law requiring counties
adjacent to areas of 500 population
per square mile to reassess real
estate every four years.
Stating that the law should be
changed to require reassessments no
more often than once each four wears
or no less than once each 10 years,
at the discretion of the supervisors
the board pointed out that a re-
assessment this year would cost in
excess Of $4,000 and would be un.
sound since it would be based or
minated property values.
! The board also authorized mem,
oers OF the General Assembly to seel
legislation revising existing laws OF
the county sanitary district.
Inis would include bills to AL.
thorize the levying of special assess.
ments against property owners whe
receive benefits from sewer installa-
lions, authority to create smalle,
olstrlcts and finance public utilities
independently OF the sanitary dis
trlct as whole, the authority OF
eminent domain, authority to en-
large the sanitary district and In
extend the facilities beyond the area
OF the district, authority to invest
sanitary district sinking funds in
state, FEDERAL, county and CITY
ponds, and authority to enforce col
iections OF charges for use of facil.
tiles.
School Board Gets sI,400.
The board authorized Al an,
allocatlon to the School Board to be
used with $1,000 from the STATE
Board OF Education for the establish
ment OF film library in the county.
Chief OF Police Carl R. Mcintosh
told the board that during the Last
SIX months 500 boys have beer
trained by Policeman Cecil Brov,,
IN the school safety patrol program
chief Mcintosh said 8.7OO chill
oren have been transported to
county schools in 81 buses and that
only two accidents were reported
during this period.
Chief Mcintosh asked the board
to include in the police budget for
next year $500 or $70o to provide
raincoats for school patrolmen."
The board authorized the pay.
ment Of $16.178,87 for county ex-
penses during December. This
amount included a county payroll
OF $9.4s2.27, and brings total ex-
penditures since July /, 1s43, to
$l18,775.75.