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Ruth Blackwell had almost fallen on the slippery side• walk leading to the courthouse.
Clerk Diane Bruce said that she had personally purchased chemical salt for the sidewalks on several occasions. “It worked where it got warm enough for it to work,” she said, noting that the zoning secretary had slipped on a shaded section of sidewalk between the courthouse and zoning office where the sun never hits. In the past months, precipitation has fallen as ice, not snow, Bruce pointed out. “And that’s as difficult to shovel here as it has been everywhere else in the county,” she said, adding that people have a responsibility to exercise “reasonable care” in walking on ice.
Supervisors Estes and Latham agreed that the board should consider hiring someone to oversee maintenance of buildings and grounds in the courthouse complex rather than leaving it to county employees to shovel sidewalks, purchase ice melting chemicals with their own money, change light bulbs and handle minor repairs in the buildings. In addition, Supervisor Nelson Lane volunteered to supply a barrel filled with sand for emergency use in the next ice storm.
Executive Session
Meeting with Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke, the board adjourned to a 45 minute executive session to discuss the Scrabble School property, a proposed lawsuit regarding a zoning violation in Jackson District and potential litigation against the county for failure to meet state regulations on animal shelters. According to Chairman Latham, no action was taken in the closed portion of the meeting. and snow removal. “This might happen again and we might then be dealing with a more serious injury and an .individual who is not as civic minded as Mrs. CartwrightBrown, all of which would be a lot more expensive for the county than the cost of hiring somebody to shovel the walks.”
At Monday’s meeting, Konick also told the supervisors that district court clerk
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