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“Maybe you could add it to your capital improvements program,” he told the supervisors. “I’m not saying it has to be done today or tomorrow.”
Administrative assistant John McCarthy noted that the owner of the Hampton Inn is interested in selling the restaurant, which is located on Route 211 between Washington and Sperryville. “That gives me a problem ... I’d hate for the county to be in a position of having to come up with '-’something in a hurry.” /
He suggested further research to determine at least the cost of a jail addition arid what the county’s share would be. “It would be a pretty good insurance policy on our part. It would show the potential vendors in the county that we have another option if their costs are too out of line, and it would give us something to fall back on if we had no bidders.”
Tony Bottley, regional jail supervisor when Rappahannock’s old lockup was upgraded and remodeled four years ago, supplied at that time the specifications for a kitchen and a list of equipment and furnishings necessary for operation, Sheriff Woodward noted.
For the 20 foot by 22 foot kitchen and equal square footage for upstairs offices and basement .“drunk tank”, plus furnishings for the three floors, the cost would be around $100,000, Mr. McCarthy estimated. “That’s $20,000 to the county.”
Jackson District’s newly elected supervisor, Col. Ellis Bingham, proposed hiring an architect “who can follow the motif of the town” as a first step.
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