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The word that bids for the high school expansion project exceed the project’s $1.5 million literary loan allocation wasn’t the only fiscally disturbing news that the Rappahannock School Board received at last Thursday’s special meeting.
Superintendent Robert Estabrook’s rundown on motors turned out to be a report on motor rundown - expensive motor rundown.
He recalled that primary and back-up motors for the high school’s heat circulating pump died within two days of each other during a particularly cold spell three weeks ago. Then during the loss of electrical power that accompanied last week’s wet snow, the motor that runs the compressor for the high school’s heating system burned up:
Early the following morning, the superintendent continued, a call came in reporting no heat in the elementary school. With maintenance supervisor Wilson Atkins in the hos
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