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For years, the Rappahannock school board has been pressuring the Virginia Department of Highways fbi an offer on the school bus shop lot which will be taken as right-of-way for widening Route 211. Although construction on the road is years away the highway department agreed to cooperate, particularly since the board alleged it needed the money to build a new shop further back on the property.
According to Henry Snead, the department’s right-of-way engineer, an offer of $22,642 was made by the highway department on October 10 for the 1.0445 acre parcel following appraisal by Walter A. Robinson of Warrenton. The offer was rejected by the school board represented by Sperryville attorney James W. Fletcher.
At the November 11 board meeting, Newbili Miller made reference several times to a January deadline for vacating the bus shop. No public report was made at that session or any earlier meeting, however, on the board’s rejection of the highway department’s offer.
According to Snead, it is policy when the highway department acquires a piece of property with a building to give the owner 90 days to vacate. For the Rappahannock bus shop, the time period started with the offer of $22,642 for the 1.0445 acre parcel, Snead said. “We’re not receptive to
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