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“When does the design plan go to the state?" asked Col. Bingham.
“Yesterday,” Mr. McCarthy answered.
“Before we as a board approved it? Then why have we wasted three hours going over this?”
Mr. McCarthy recalled that he had consulted with the supervisors following their tour of the high school expansion project last week and had been given authorization to deliver the design plans to Richmond as soon as they were finished.
“Whether the state got them last month, last week, or yesterday is immaterial," Mr. Massie assured Col. Bingham. “We can make any change we want to.”
The delivery of the plans to the Department of Waste Management before presentation to the board “comes as no surprise to me," Supervisor Lane said, confirming that Mr. McCarthy had been given the goahead.
“And this has not been a waste of time.” Chairman Hubert Gilkey added. “Now we know what’s going on; we understand what’s being proposed,” he said, concurring with Mr. McCarthy that ‘time is of the essence.”
Mr. Joyce reported that the department’s engineers will call him instead of writing if, in their review of the plans, they have a question regarding the design. “Then I can meet with them in Richmond to expedite the review' process." With the department’s review staff down from five to two, it will take from two weeks to a month for a decision on the landfill permit, even if Rappahannock’s application is given top priority, he said.
If the board w’aits until then to begin the bidding process for the road work which must be completed before the development of the actual
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