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The New Year arrived last weekend and what better way is there to roll out the welcome mat than by drawing up a list of resolutions, a set of promises to make 1984 better than the last 12 months.
Before we make our pledges, we offer the following for the consideration of the county’s local governing bodies and governors.
For the School Board, a do and a don’t. DO more ahead with the long delayed capital outlay program at the high school. The needs there have been documented since 1976. Only the Sperryville sewer system has been hanging around longer and it appears that project will finally lose its “long delayed” description. In 1984 it’s the high school building program’s turn. DONT continue to sneak off into barely legal executive sessions. The exclusions in Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act are to be construed narrowly, according to the statue itself. Justified executive sessions behind closed doors away from the eyes and ears of the public were never intended to include discussions of rough ^ cost estimates of new buildings dr" renovation and remodeling of old. As for public disclosure compromising the bidding process, the experience of the Board of Supervisors has shown that bids come in lower—not higher— when that cost estimate information is released.
For the Board of Supervisors, a push toward full compliance with the law. The Virginia Code gives the board responsibility for providing a landfill for trash disposal accessible to the public. Local ordinances restrict what can be dropped in the dumpsters, our only PUBLIC trash disposal sites, making it illegal to leave large appliances or bumables there. Euthanized strays are still being buried in the dog warden’s back field. The only approved landfill in the county is private with access limited to Community Trash, the company that empties the few dumpsters scattered here and there. This arrangement may possibly meet the letter of the law; it doesn’t meet the intent of the General Assembly, however. It’s time in 1984 for the supervisors to give Rappahannock a trash dump, even if it means resorting to condemnation.
Also for the Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission, a
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