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“It’s costing money everytime we delay,” said Supervisor Chairman J.R. Latham as the Rappahannock board agreed on Monday to put jail renovations out for bid.
The sheriff’s department has been forced to beg jail space from Shenandoah to Charlottesville since March, 1982, when Fauquier announced that Rappahannock prisoners could no longer be housed there due to overcrowding.
Plans were finally approved last month by the State Department of Corrections for upgrading the county’s current 24-hour lock-up facility to full jail status. Reimbursement for half the estimated $163,000 cost was initially included in the state budget but later eliminated in accordance with spending cuts ordered by Governor Charles Robb. The $82,500 for the Rappahannock project was again added, this February following approval by the General Assembly of Delegate Raymond R. “Andy” Guest’s supplemental appropriations request.
“Is the state money nailed down?” asked Robert Eastham at Monday’s board meeting.
“It’s nailed down unless the governor’s going to veto the apprpriations bill,” Com
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