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supervisors. Mr. Lane s attitude is “we got you up here today so that’s okay,” the attorney continued. “But I think Mr. Abell and Mr. Vanneman would like to get up these steps without your help. . . I’ve known Mr. Vanneman for six years,” he said of the Piedmont Vocational teacher who is confined to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis. “He never expected to be up here like this. He was an athlete. I played basketball with him, and he’s beaten me to the hoop more than once. He’s in a wheelchair, but he continues to work, he continues to produce. Yet he has to ask for special help to get up the stairs to this meeting. . .1 chide you, Mr. Lane, for looking at this from your own point of view and not from the point of view of these people who are being discriminated against daily,” concluded Mr. Reynolds.
“I’d like to support the ordinance without the waiver provision,” said Sperryville resident Ruth Richards.
“I think the building restoration committee should be ordered to get on with the job,” added Phil Irwin of Flint Hill.
“I’m a little ashamed that we left it to the handicapped people to carry the ball on this thing,” said Bob Gowell. “Our own dignity is at stake.” Of the concern over cost of a barrier free courthouse, he suggested that the board investigate alternative revenue sources, such as taxing tourists or taxing well-to-do retirees at a higher rate. “There are lots of us who can afford more taxes.”
“I didn’t know the feelings were so strong,” said Mr. Lane, adding that he thought the problem of handicapped access was being solved. “Apparently it’s not.”
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