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Continued from page 1 for jail operations, $10,000 would go for food and $10,000 for amortization of the local share of remodeling, the sheriff said. The State Compensation Board will pay a cook’s salary, he added.
“Also, we’re pretty crowded. We need more space,” the sheriff continued. “We’ve got no place to interrogate a prisoner privately,” he said, noting that office space could be included as part of the kitchen expansion with the state paying half of construction costs.
“It’s rediculous to put a kitchen in if we’re (providing meals) for $20,000,” said Supervisor Newbill Miller, pointing out that a cook’s salary and construction expenses would more than outweigh the $10,000 saved in actual food preparation. As for the need for office space, the sheriffs department now has “about three times the office space we used to use and not so long ago, either,” Mr. Miller said.
Supervisor Charles Estes maintained that the kitchen offer is intended to help Rappahannock maintain prisoners in the local jail - where it costs $20 per day ~ rather than taking them into the state system. “It costs $47 a day in the state system...So that’s what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to cover themselves.”
Fire and rescue
In seeking $62,040 ~ almost triple this year’s appropriation of $21,565 — Fire and Rescue Association representative Donald Gore described the financial hurdles facing emergency service providers.
Sixty-one percent of the county’s fire fighting equipment is over 20 years old, and with age comes higher maintenance costs, he said, noting that a new truck motor alone runs between $4,000 and $6,000. Aging buildings, some with leaking roofs, likewise need repairs, as do grounds, he said.
“The state is putting tremendous requirements on us for dances and carnivals (the major fund raisers for the county’s fire and rescue companies)... Sperryville, for example, is going to have to spend $3,000 to $4,000 (to upgrade wiring at its carnival grounds).”
And Mr. Gore’s list went on: Personnel protective equipment that does not meet OSHA standards, turn-out gear that does not meet fire protection standards.
Fire and rescue personnel have heavier training requirements to meet, he reported. Emergency medical technicians must spend 110 hours in the classroom plus additional time in a hospital emergency room, then take a 50 hour refresher course every three years. To become shock trauma or cardiac certified, a volunteer needs 200 to 300 hours.
Without financial support from local government, volunteers will have to devote time to fund raising that would be better spent in training, according to the Fire and Rescue Association spokesman.
Mr. Gore pointed to a recent survey that showed 63 percent of Rap
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