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dollars that we did not have, if we didn’t need to.
Check the record. From the first moment the supervisors mentioned changing the plans to brick and mortar, I have opposed it. The reasons again are simple. Our architects told us that it would darn near double our costs ibr little added benefit or life span.
Let us not be too quick to forget our experience in building our school administration/bus shop facility recently. When costs had been estimated at (489,000, we actually built this facility for (129,000. This, to me, represents a potential savings of (310,000 or several times the acbannock
that I stand so firmly for What I feel is ri^tt. For surely as tax rates continue to rise, it will dramatically change the fece of Rappahannock County. Agriculture will be consumed by development, and we will become “Loudounized.” To improve our schools is one of the few changes we can make in Rappahannock’s beat interests.
In closing, I feel adamantly that management and common sense must transcend political actions, or our fate is governmental mediocrity. Our million ' dollars could have been better spent on making the present building more energy efficient, or fixing the roof properly so our renewed school will not have the old buckets in the classrooms and hallways, or for needed improvements in professional salaries.
NELSON P. LANE
Supervisor
StonewaU-Hawthorne District
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