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year,” suggested Herbert Foster. “You’ve spent more on scraping the entry up at Chester’s Gap than it would have cost you to do the project right in the first place. There wouldn’t have been so much maintenance.”
“I’ve certainly attempted in times past to do the most I could to make the budget as fair as I could possibly make it,” said Jim Skeens.
“You look at the county as one; we look at it as five,” said Newbill Miller. Skeens said he’d “be delighted” to work with the individual Supervisors in any way he could to try and satisfy their desires, but repeated his assertion that “it’s difficult to spread it out when it costs $70 to $100,000 per mile.”
“THE PEOPLE ought to be able to determine what is best,” commented George Davis, claiming that the new bridge over the Rappahannock between Flint Hill and Marshall was not needed.
Skeens’s budget was eventually approved, but the impression remained that the Supervisors — with the possible exception of Latham — remained unsatisfied. □
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