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The Rappahannock supervisors deserve congratulations for their new style of action.
In the past, the board has been a study in procrastination. When the State Fire Marshal cited the courthouse for fire code violations, it took the supervisors three years to get around to putting up a fire escape exit from the second floor.
Rappahannock was the last county in Virginia to provide its sheriff's department county-owned cars in place of paying mileage to law enforcement officers for driving their own vehicles on police business. For years, the supervisors ignored the State Code’s requirement for a building inspector, instituting an inspection program only after threats of legal action by the Attorney General’s office.
Rappahannock waited until the last minute to start work on a comprehensive plan, actually adopted one after the state’s deadline for action. Construction of a new clerk’s office began only after repeated warnings from judges that additional space was an absolute necessity.
Based on these; past patterns, we expected postponement of action on providing jail space in the county until the circuit court actually filed legal papers ordering construction. But the Rappahannock supervisors have a new approach, one of action rather than reaction. Immediately following the announcement from neighboring sheriff Luther Cox that Fauquier Jail would no longer accept Rappahannock’s prisoners, the supervisors started the ball rolling on upgrading the lock-up here to state standards for regular jails. They have begun despite current , economic
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