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system or buy a new recorder. It’s past time to stop relying solely on a secretary’s fast fingers.

Although notes for drawing up minutes are taken at the various meetings, they vary considerably in depth of coverage. Fanning Baumgardner’s records of Planning Commission sessions deal with substantive issues, debates between members and points raised by the audience. The minutes kept on BZA meetings are concerned primarily with who made and seconded what motion.

The “other side” is beginning to take more care. At last Thursdays BZA meeting, P. E. Steve DeMent III and his attorney came prepared with both a secretary taking shorthand and a tape recorder. For the protection of Rappahannock, county government should leam from this example.

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