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In what had to be a first for Rappahannock, not a single complaint about the conditions of the county's secondary roads was voiced at the annual road hearing held by the supervisors and resident engineer Don Askew on Monday.
Askew started out on a positive note, reporting that the General Assembly’s passage of a franchise sales tax on gasoline will increase Rappahannock's 1982-83 allotment for secondary roads by $146,000 over the current year. The county is slated to get $340,000 in the coming fiscal year, a jump that will bring funding back up to 1980-81 levels after this year's drop to $194,000.
“We're cautiously optimistic that we will have added flexibility (with the extra money)," Askew said. He noted that funds will go primarily towards completing projects already scheduled in the six-year road plan but delayed by last year’s cutback in allocations.
In the past, the county courtroom has been packed for the annual road hearing with citizens complaining about pot holes, blind curves, dust problems, flooding, stopped-up drainage ditches and gravel roads they felt should be paved. The complainers were all absent Monday and as the resident engineer asked each supervisor for comment, he got only favorable remarks.
"We’re very pleased with the job you’re doing in Tiger Valley (on Route 626),’’ said supervisor Clarence Baldwin, asking if the improvement
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