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decided to run when Mr. Lane didn’t show up at the last forum, and I have flushed him out! He’s in attendance tonight.”
On specific issues, Mrs. Kilpatrick cited her long term concern with the public schools. If elected, she said she’d work to have the board “keep its commitment to the people of Woodville and see that the landfill on the Clark property is closed by the end of the year.” That privately owned and operated facility “has no liner, no leachate collection system, no monitoring wells ... It presents a potential hazard to the people in the area.”
She said she favors retaining local dumpster sites if a landfill is established in Jackson District and restoring a dumpster site at Slate Mills.
According to the write-in candidate, the supervisors have kept real estate taxes low at the expense of personal property taxes. “If you have $10,000 worth of car - that’s one good car or two clunkers - you’ll pay $290 this year in taxes. If you have $10,000 worth of real estate, you’ll pay $65 in taxes. That should be more even.”
Mrs. Kilpatrick expressed “serious reservation” on the use value assessment program, noting that landowners had been giving the county a long-term commitment to keep land undeveloped in exchange for the preferential assessments by signing up for Agricultural and Forestal Districts until the county-wide use value taxation ordinance was enacted. Once that happened, applications for Agricultural and Forestal Districts dropped off, she said. “I’m in favor of abolishing general use value and'giving it only to land in Agricultural and Forestal Districts.”
Is there a single over-riding issue? “The issue most important to me is education. We already have a serious problem recruiting teachers and keeping them here . . . I’m afraid the landfill is going to cost us so much money, I don’t see a way to improve that situation ... The landfill might have been a whole lot cheaper if we’d done it five years back.”
Should land application of sludge be allowed in Rappahannock County? “Sludge ought to be an asset... I’ve read horror stories about sludge with PCBs being spread on fields but Blue Plains sludge (from Washington, D.C.’s treatment plant) is supposed to be very clean ... I’d like for farmers to have access to sludge. I think it might be safer than some of the chemical fertilizers. But I would want a guarantee that it would be carefully monitored and constantly checked for heavy metals . . . Certainly we’ll have to do something about the sludge from Sperryville’s sewage treatment plant.”
Should the Planning Commission be required to do more long range planning, specifically toward the development of a capital improvements plan? “This county staggers from crisis to crisis . . . It’s nerve wracking for the citizens . . . (With capital improvements such as the high school expansion and the landfill) if they had been planned for, if they
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