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By DAPHNE MCCULLOUGH

TALES of cramped and crowded office conditions dominated Monday night’s meeting of the new Rappahannock Ad Hoc Space Study Committee. The committee was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to study solutions to the space problems in the Rappahannock Court House, recently brought to a head by the request of the Court for two additional rooms. Other county offices are also under study as to their space requirements and the necessity of having the offices in the Court House or in Washington.

Under Virginia law, a county Board of Supervisors is responsible for providing sufficient space for the conduct of the courts. “Hie Court Houses in Virginia were built for the "court system. It’s the judge’s domain, so to speak,” said Supervisor Pete Luke.

The situation at the Health Department received the most attention from the committee. Fanning Baumgardner described the 415-square-foot, two-room office as “completely inadequate; there’s

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