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(Continued from Page 1) planner tells me that everyone needs a capital improvements program,” continued Mr. McCarthy, pointing to the requirement for a CIP in the current comprehensive plan. “But now that I’ve been here for five months, I think the last thing Rappahannock County needs is a CIP.” The long range planning for expansion of public facilities which is a prerequisite for a CIP is not possible here, he maintained. “We don’t know what we’ll need until six months in advance of the need! . . . It takes time to prepare a capital improvements program and I wouldn’t know what to put into one for Rappahannock County.”
But Commissioner Krebser disagreed. Taxes here have skyrocketed because public officials didn’t look down the road far enough and anticipate the need for a jail, a new clerk’s office, renovations to the courthouse and a sanitary landfill, he said. “We didn’t have a capital improvements program . . . and everything came at once, driving the tax rate up . . . Just like with any busi
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