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increase in the user fee schedule, a $200,000 loan at five percent over a 30 year period could be paid off with an expenditure of about $14,000 per year. If the water system brought in $16,000 a year, Mr. Dickey added, that would pay for the loan and leave some money left for maintenance. “That is not a six-fold increase in rates,” he observed, “that is a twofold increase.”
“Instead of looking at that,” Mr. Dickey charged, “you are trying to tax one business ... if you put them out of business, then where are you? If the town is in such bad shape - if you’re going down the tubes - maybe you shouldn’t be a town.”
Reinhardt Lynch, co-owner with chef Patrick O’Connell of the internationally acclaimed Inn at Little Washington, observed that he and Mr. O’Connell find themselves in an “interesting predicament.” He said that “from the very beginning, several weeks before The Inn opened, when we were informed we would have to change the restaurant’s name, we have had a long and difficult history in dealing with (town) council.. . It’s been a hard road for us . . . We’ve always faced roadblocks from someone . . . Now (we’re) on the verge of being the ma
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