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Becky Burke asked the Supervisors to approve Chapter 10’s budget request. “Please don’t go backwards. We had nothing for years,” she said. Mrs. Burke said that mental health services available within the community mean that a good number of people don’t have to be sent to facilities like Western State. “You can’t put a $6,000 price tag on a human life,” she said.
JOHN JONES, legal assistance planner for Planning District Nine, told the Supervisors they could obtain $5,108 worth of radio equipment for $255. The rest of the cost would be paid for through federal funds. The equipment would include three automobile radios, two walkie-talkies and one monitor, Jones said.
Pete Luke had wanted the Supervisors to accept Jones’s offer when he first presented it, at the Supervisors’ meeting last month. The State Police now “dispatch” for the sheriff’s department and if they change to a different frequency, Rappahannock will have to invest a good amount of money in new equipment then. “I see it either $250 now or $5,000 later,” Luke said.
Sheriff John Walker Jenkins reminded the Supervisors that he hadn’t asked for the radio equipment. But since the last meeting, Jenkins said, he’d talked with Jones and others about it and was ready
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