The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-06-16
Herring June %
Proposed County
Budget Has One
Major Exception
VOLUME 50
BY JOHN STICK

Prince Edward county's proposed
S210.654 budget for the Il months
commencing July | is essentially
similar to all previous annual bud
gets with one major exception and
several minor ones that are pro-
vided for a year of uncertainties
without established precedent from
the past.
These understood, the budget
loses the strangeness which might
be associated with a fiscal outline
reduced IS per cent over the cur
rent budget of 1887 .143
The near-a -million-dollar 1889
budget ends with the fiscal year on
June 80 A public hearing on the
new one will be held June % at 10
am, in the Court House after
which supervisors will give the pro
posed financial outline for the next
IL months final consideration, then
set a tax levy
Similarity Shown
A similarity with last years bud
get. and those of earlier years. can
be established by this procedure:
from. the 1889 budget total of
1887. l43, deduct state and local ap-
preparations of $751; .489 which were
included therein for public schools
'82 per cent of the total That
would leave S175.654 a sum fairly
approximating the $40 654 budgeted
for the next IL months.
Then add to the SITS .654 the
current years provision for county
operation. exclusive of schools
a few necessary but unusual APP
preparations for meeting contin-
gencies which may arise without
public schools, and the close connec-
ton between last years budget and
the proposed new one is evident.
Essential service S. including
$26 900 in local funds for welfare.
are provided for in the s2l0.654 pro
posed budget. Since the budget
figures are devoted exclusively to
locally provided funds and locally
financed costs. a S65 1921 state-fed-
eral welfare appropriation which
will be received does not appear
Essentials Kept
Operations of all county offices
and continuance of all normal func-
tons are provided for in the new
expenditure estimates To normal
appropriations for these are added
several may necessary functions.
County administration. for which
S27 .535 is appropriated. is about
$4,000 higher than year ago. The
extra funds may be needed for
legal assistance. and for other ad-
ministrative tasks which may de-
velop.
Crime prevention and detection is
higher by about S12 800 with the
cost of extra police and deputies
added
Assessment of taxable property is
UP about Sl5.313 to provide mainly
for the 1860 reassessment of real
property which the county must
COIiuuCI ullutI VII Slllld law. 1UtSt
are mandatory each six years in
order to keep property assessments
equitable and mpl te The
county's last was in 1854.
Joint Effort
Otherwise, the budget is similar
to those of previous years as re-
CARDS proposed county government
expenditures. The budget contains
funds for all foreseeable needs, as
worked out by the supervisors bud
get committee and county officers.
Revenue estimates in the new
budget differ primarily with previ-
GUS years in the absence of the
state appropriation for public
schools: absence of the federal-state
welfare grant, which will be re-
ceived, however, as previously men
toned, and absence of the normal
county share of ABC System profits.
The state school appropriation is
omitted because the county does not
intend to appropriate for mixed
schools. and the ABC profits income
normally about $35 900 is omitted
fNnntiv.,od m nono ~