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AN APPROPRIATION sufficient to pay an assistant registrar for a half-day’s work each week was approved at the November meeting of the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors.
At their previous meeting, the Supervisors had approved appointment of an assistant, to serve a total of six days a year. Jack Carney, chairman of the Electoral Board, and James Massie, secretary, appeared before the Supervisors last Thursday to argue that the previous action didn’t provide for enough.
Carney said an assistant is not only needed, but that he understands that the next session of the General Assembly will make such a position mandatory on the part of all counties.
The process has become so complicated, since being computerized, said Carney, that it is also imperative that someone know the procedures involved other than the full-time registrar, Mary Cleverley.
He thought that the registrar should keep office hours one day a week, and that the assistant should be there at least half that time, in order to become fully conversant with the work involved in new procedures. “If Mrs. Cleverley gets ill, we’d be in a real bind,” said Carney, adding that the county had to always plan for the worst possible contingencies.
CHAIRMAN Pete Luke said he had thought that “just some simple record-keeping.” was involved, but he agreed that the computer system had complicated things.
Said Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis: “I thought the computer system was going to make it possible to eliminate personnel. This doesn’t make sense.”
Luke disagreed. “You’ve got to have the cards and things done right. Otherwise, you run into the
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