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to a demand from Gwendolyn Hammond for $36,929 as reimbursement for use of her property in Amissville as a dumpter site.
Hammond noted in her latest letter that she’d written the supervisors, in June, 1979, informing them that Amissville dumpsters were located on her private property rather than on highway department right-of-way as intended.
At that time. Hammond claimed the county owed her $9,900 and volunteered to cooperate in making necessary modifications and negotiating a fair contract for future use of the land.
The supervisors never responded to Mrs. Hammond’s letter and continued to use her property in what she described as a “haphazard fashion” with "no regard or consideration.”
Her most recent bill includes rental costs for the past year. According to resident highway engineer Don Askew, the 11 Amissville dumpters were originally located on highway department right-of-way. During construction of widened Route 211. however, a couple of green boxes were eased back onto Mrs. Hammond’s land. Askew acknowledged.
Approximately two months ago, the dumpsters were moved from the contested area to a new site purchased by the county on Route 642. But problems in addition to Mrs. Hammond's persistent charges have continued.
Last month, the supervisors initially balked at paying Wallace Critzer's $5,000 bill for improvements to the access road to the new dumpster site but later reconsidered in executive session.
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