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Currently under consideration by the Board of Supervisors is the question of whether to hire a county administrator. We urge the Board to go ahead with the idea because to do so would fill a void in the county’s government.
What Rappahannock lacks is a professional person to oversee the day-to-day management of the county. Such management should include the foresight and skill to prepare the county to deal effectively with an array of increasingly complex issues.
Smart planning on a daily basis probably would have headed off such recent crises as 1) the Peyton Farms landfill dispute and 2) the suit against Rappahannock over its inadequate animal facilities.
Consider also how manageable the sewage problem in Sperryville might have been with the aid of a county administrator. He or she would have had the time to seek a more efficient resolution to that problem.
In ah interview', Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke affirmed his support for the hiring of a county administrator. He said that, at present, issues and the concerns of citizens are dealt with in one month increments “because there is no one to execute on a day-to-day basis what the supervisors call for.” He thought that people (taxpayers) deserve the kind of government that administrates, and responds to citizens, daily.
Luke compared the county’s government to a business, saying that the county’s supervisors were the equivalent of a business’ board of directors. But he noted that whereas a business has an executive offi
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