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RAPPAHANNOCK’S Supervisors are happy with the present three-member school electoral board, it was revealed at their meeting April 1.
Chairman Pete Luke reported that he had been asked by Judge Rayner Snead if the Supervisors would prefer to have a five-member school electoral board, with one from each magisterial district. Luke said the judge said several citizens had made this suggestion to him, and he wanted to know what the Supervisors felt about it.
Luke said “three is fine with me,” and the others felt the same way. “I don’t see any need for one from each district,” said J.R. Latham. “I think there is enough representation the way it is.”
Supervisors H.B. Wood and Butch Eastham agreed, as did ' Clarence Baldwin, so the matter was dropped at that point.
Luke then asked the Supervisors how they wanted to “proceed” with the school budget this year. “Last year,” he recalled, “they came here to discuss their budget, and we wound up sponsoring a public hearing. I think this year they should make their peace with the teachers and the public and then give us a budget they’ve scrubbed in hearings of their own.”
LUKE elaborated: “I’m for letting them deal with the public on the school budget—let them take the heat on that part. Last year, I got the feeling that the buck was passed to us.”
Said Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis: “I think you could require the School Board to be more specific on their figures.”
The other Supervisors indicated they agreed with Luke’s suggestion.
THEN CAME what has become a regular feature of Rappahannock Board of Supervisor meetings— ' a discussion of the high cost of trash collection.
Last month, the base bill of $2,622:32 for trash collection was increased by a $685 bill tacked on for picking op trash spilled around the dumpsters.
Luke thought that hiring someone for “a couple of hundred a month to go around and pick up this spilled trash” would mean a savings for the county.
“If you can do it, it would be good,” said H.B. Wood, “but some of that trash is out on the ground because the dumpsters are too full.” He thought maybe some extra dumpsters ought to be put out.
George Davis thought there should be more dumpsters placed in a greater number of locations throughout the county.
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