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Washington two weeks ago to survey the court house in respect to future needs of the court system. This service comes under a Planning District 9 contract with the Justice Department and has already been used by Madison County.
The survey includes no architectural service, according to Luke. Rappahannock will receive a report with a suggested way to proceed with any expansion plans. The county will be under no obligation to accept the University’s proposal. “They did an excellent job in Madison,” commented Luke, and that county is going ahead with the expansion plans suggested by the University’s survey. “There are some programs available to pay for this (court house expansion),” concluded Luke.
JOHN JONES, Planning District 9’s Criminal Justice Planner, appeared before the Board to ask for support for an alcohol rehabilitation program. Culpeper County has agreed to be the cash flow agent in the program and participation wouldn’t cost Rappahannock anything.
Similar alcohol rehabilitation programs have been instituted throughout the state in response to 1975 General Assembly action that provided for an individual who was arrested for drunk driving to successfully complete a rehabilitation program in lieu of going to jail. According to Jones, the programs are designed to be selfsupporting and cost the participant $200.
The existence of such a program in Culpeper would enable Rappahannock citizens to take part there rather than Fairfax or Winchester, according to Jones. A study done by Planning District 9 at Culpeper’s request to determine if such a program was needed found that 17 percent of the drivers they tested were drinking and 2 percent were drunk.
“It’s a very good solution, ” said Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis, “the best the state’s ever come up with in dealing with drunk drivers. It’s absolutely essential that we participate.”
While supporting Rappahannock’s participation, Luke commented, “I don’t know if you’re going to rehabilitate these people by sending them to school.”
THE Supervisors voted unanimously for Rappahannock to join the program by appointing a representative to the Rehabilitation
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