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Also, the Supervisors needed to comment on the work Planning District Nine had done, which Jim White had presented earlier, and indicate if they wanted District Nine to continue this work.
“Rappahannock doesn’t have any immediate problems, but we’ve got a fire burning around the periphery. The other counties* have their problems. I think we ought to start doing our homework and being prepared.” So Luke thought the question before the board was “what expense and detail do we want to go to in order to be prepared?”
“Do we want to hire PEC or do we want to see how much we can get done using Fanning(Baumgardner), Planning District Nine and some volunteers? I know some members of the Board feel the data (such as soil and topography studies) is already here.” Luke asked Baumgardner, as zoning administrator and secretary to the Planning Commission, what he thought was best.
“Naturally, I’m in favor of the Cadillac — hiring PEC. You can always do your job better when there is more information available to you,” Baumgardner said. “But maybe we should rapidly come up with a comprehensive plan that is all narrative and then in time work at fleshing that out. Maybe there’s some ground in-between.”
Pete Luke thought that might be true. “Maybe we don’t want to spend $1,500 with PEC. Maybe we should see what they could do for us with a $250 bill. Maybe we can get them to do some of the maps and sell them to us, but not take the whole proposal they offered us.” Luke noted that $250 from the county for PEC would actually represent $500 worth of work, since the county’s payment would be matched dollar for dollar by a federal grant to PEC.
JIM WHITE added that his office. Planning District Nine,
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