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Jackson District began beating the bushes to raise his $50,000 retainer.
The supervisors, meanwhile, had money worries of their own. They’d received only one bid for hauling Rappahannock’s garbage, and at $360,000 it was almost $160,000 over budget. Luckily, and once again at the last minute, there’s good news from our neighbors in Culpeper. They’ll take our garbage for the next four months and after we get our landfill going they’ll bring it back_ our garbage and then some. Three bags for two = 50 percent more garbage. Who says you can’t sell this stuff?
Does all this seem bizarre to anyone else, or is it just me that’s crazy? I don’t really blame the supervisors, the Site Selection Committee, the newspaper, or the $ 180/hour lawyer. They’re all well-intentioned and doing the best they can with the time and resources they have. But increasingly, the whole system by which we make big county decisions seems to be slipping.
Two thoughts on the landfill appeal to my common sense.
First, it seems self-evident that it ought to be as centrally located as possible. Folks can’t be expected to bring their trash several times a week from one end of the county to the other. And they won’t be willing or able to pay the high cost of having someone else haul it. The most likely result of a landfill located right on the county lines is that our back country roadsides will start sprouting so much garbage, Mr. McCarthy and all the Boy Scouts he can muster won’t be able to put a dent in it.
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