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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock !N**w* Staff Writer
Architect Ed McClintock unveiled capital outlay jproposals for expansion of the elementary and high schools and construction of new central offices and school bus garage at Monday’s special school board meeting.
Cost of the total package amounts to approximately $1,400,000.
With the exception of Capital Outlay Committee Chairman Paul Nichols, however, the board members balked at endorsing any of the plans presented by McClintock. Instead, they voted to present the Supervisors with long-range capital outlay projections that merely list priorities. The board ranked the high school as number one, the elementary school second, the bus garage third and new administrative offices last. They included no proposals for when any expansion projects would begin, no estimated completion date and no indication of what type of expansion they are considering.
McClintock prefaced his review of the schematic drawings for the construction projects by acknowledging the impact of inflation. “The same thing that’s happened with beef and gasoline has happened with school construction-costs...What was $10 a square foot in the early ’60’s is now $40,” he informed the board. He said the increase in construction costs has been tremendous, averaging approximately 12 per cent a year.
But, he added, this inflation is relative when balanced against the corresponding increase in wages and tax base.
High School
McClintock’s proposal for the high school calls for 15, 950 square feet of space that includes:
—green house and hor
92.7%