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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
“I THINK I would change my vote on going with a private landfill,” said Supervisor Clarence Baldwin at the close of a discussion at last Thursday’s meeting of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors. Baldwin added that he didn’t think the Supervisors had received enough “input” at the time the decision was made two months ago to proceed with work towards a privately owned landfill in the county.
The landfill issue wasn’t on the agenda for the November meeting but the subject came up after the conclusion of the regular business. Chairman Pete Luke suggested an executive session to discuss disposal of the Madison Extension Building and also included the landfill site for discussion in the private session.
“Why an executive session?” asked Patricia Helmer, a citizen who was present. She wanted to know why the landfill couldn’t be discussed in public.
Luke replied that the issue involved private parties involved in negotiations. He added that the Board members had already voted unanimously at a prior meeting to pursue a privately owned landfill rather than acquire land for a county owned operation.
Mrs. Helmer still objected to the executive session. “I’d like for there to be a record on how each Supervisor feels.” She argued that all the discussions on the landfill should be kept public so that the public knows what is going on.
LUKE responded that the issue had been aired in public on a number of previous occasions. He said he had written articles for the local paper on the trash problem and that a county landfill had been discussed at several meetings of the Rappahannock Planning Commission before the Supervisors had voted to go with a private concern.
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