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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock N«*w« Staff Writer
Bids for renovation work to bring Rappahannock's old jail up to State Department of Correction’s standards should go out late this month, according to aprogress report from supervisor Hubert Gilkey given at Monday’s board meeting.
In the meantime, with county facilities sufficient only for 24-hour lock-up, local prisoners remain incarcerated in Page, Shenandoah and Fauquier counties, sheriff W. A. Buntin told the supervisors.
Gilkey reported that he’d talked with Hunter Spencer, architect for the renovation project, and found “everything’s going along very well.’’
The only hold-up now is data on the heating system necessary before specifications can be finalized, he added. “Mr. Spencer has promised me something in the next week that we can go over and then let it out for bids,” Gilkey said.
But the location of the antenna for the dispatch center which will be housed in the remodeled jail remains to be decided.
Last month. Washington Mayor Newbill Miller proposed that the communications tower be situated behind the courthouse in order to preserve the visual esthetics of the courthouse complex.
At Monday’s meeting, Gilkey noted that if the antenna is placed behind the building, the dispatch center will have to be in the courthouse. He suggested that the 80-foot selfsupporting tower go in the east end of the jail yard instead. "I don’t think it will be that unsightly.”
”We may just have to get used to it.” supervisor chairman J. R. Latham responded.
"There’s no place in the courthouse that I know of where we can put the equipment," Sheriff Buntin added. He maintained that the east end of the jail yard was the logical place for the tower. "There's room there, it’s not in the way of the renovation work."
"Some of the townspeople might object to it,” said supervisor Clarence Baldwin, representative from Hampton District which includes the town of Washington.
“I have a 70-foot tower behind my house and no one has objected to that. This will only be 10 feet higher,” Buntin noted.
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