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planners rejected an “Emergency Energy Conservation” program which had been submitted for their review by the State Division of Planning. That program would use $295,000 in federal funds to seek out people who need help with their fuel bills or in “winterizing” their houses.
The Planning Commissioners thought that the program was “top heavy administratively” according heavy administratively” and would duplicate services already offered, according to Dick McNear, Fauquier’s Zoning Engineer and one of the county’s members on the regional commission.
Other agencies wnich already exist offer similar services, McNear said. The welfare department helps people who need money for fuel or firewood and VPI has agents who can offer help and advice on winterizing houses and buildings.
In short, Planning District Commissiohers concluded the program could be better administered by local agencies and they pointed out that winter would be past and the problem over by the time a new state agency could be established, Kenneth Oestreich said.
The results of a poll on Revenue Sharing will be forwarded to state and federal representatives, District Planning Commission members decided. The Regional Planning staff polled local government officials in regard to Revenue Sharing, the program through which federal money is returned to local governments, usually with limitations on how the funds can be used. Revenue Sharing is under scrutiny by members of Congress, and there has been some talk of discontinuing it.
Most of the 29 local government officials who responded to the poll
97.3%