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At last Thursday’s Board meeting, Supervise 4 Chairman E P. Luke an * nounced that the county’! application with the Farmer Home Administration tc cover costs of formulating i comprehensive plan has beer denied.
Congress appropriated Si million for rural planning grants year before last foi allocation last year but as ths Department of Agricuitun wasn’t set up at that time tt run the program, funds weren’t handed out until this year, according to Luke. H< noted that the majority of grant applicants t< the Farmers Homs Administration had corns from Virginia and Florida Rappahannock’s was turned down, he said, because ths county asked for funds tc draw up a general comprehensive plan instead oi identifying “immediate priority problems.”
Luke suggested that th< county reapply for a rural planning grant and alsc submit an application foi planning money under ths HUD 701 planning grant program. No formal action was taken on either of ths Chairman’s proposals.
In recent years, nine localities in ths Rappahannock-Rapid an Planning District Commission have received 701 funds for comprehensive planning, according tc
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