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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Vh« Staff VI riler
When the Rappahannock school board authorized a 515,433 warrant in October, 1980. the final payment in 524,104 disbursed for roof repairs since the previous October, the board thought it had seen the last of leaky roofs at the elementary and high schools.
"So you can understand why we were shocked and surprised when we found out that the whole bloody place is leaking again!" Robert Eastham informed Otis Williams, contractor for the roof work done to date at both schools.
Otis attended last Tuesday's school board meeting after learning in a telephone conversation with chairman Beverly Massie that problems have reccured at the elementary school. “The board is displeased with the work and I can see why," he said.
Otis added, however, that the loss of three ceiling tiles in the cafeteria, the primary trouble spot at the eleme; ; ry school, could have been prevented if he’d been called in for repairs as soon as the leak was discovered.
In 1977, when he first began work at the schools. Otis said that he'd found the roofs at both schools in bad shape. Trying "to get the
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