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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
With a new board member in the “pro” camp and an old board member opting to switch rather than fight, the supervisors in one vote on Monday amended the county budget and accepted the state’s $1.5 million literary loan for the long delayed high school expansion.
“We said we’d make a decision today,” said Chairman Hubert Gilkey, referring to the board’s promise at last month’s standing-room-only public hearing on the proposed capital outlay project and acceptance of the low interest loan for construction.
With that reminder and with no fanfare and no preamble, Supervisor Charles Estes offered a motion to approve the $1.5 million building program and amend the budget to show the same amount under revenue and expenditure.
There was a pause; the crowd in the courtroom held its collective breath.
The motion was seconded by A1 Henry, the new “supervisor from Jackson District appointed just a few minutes earlier by majority vote.
“Rappahannock County cannot take three more years of fighting and bitterness,announced Supervisor Newbill Miller, who had been a consistent opponent of the project. “I’m going to support this.”
Mr. Miller, a former member of the Rappahannock County School Board, explained that he has always been in favor of improvements in the ^academic facilities at the high school. “And my district is overwhelmingly in support of the academic portion
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