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pie coining from Rappahannock,” Miss Pullen said.
According to the workshop’s finance director, the appropriations request didn’t cover even the transportation expenses. “Just the gas alone is way over $400 a month,” she said, noting that it cost FORE 43 cents a mile to operate the van. With the route to Rappahannock 91 miles roundtrip, that works out to about $20,000 annually.
Fauquier County appropriated $25,000 for the non-profit workshop, and Culpeper County continued its long-standing practice of allocating $6,000. But. Rappahannock’s supervisors declined to contribute to FORE, saying it would set a precedent for supporting other private organizations.
However, the board did request the Community Services Board to share $400 of its annual appropriation from Rappahannock with the workshop.
Formerly, the Rappahannock- Rapidan Community Services Board included the Remington workshop under its “umbrella” funding, but when that state agency, which provides mental health, mental retardation, substahce abuse, and aging programs and services, was confronted with its own budget crisis, it ended its direct dol lar contributions to FORE.
CSC did send its van to Rappahannock for FORE’s clients for about a year, according to Miss Pullen, but that assistance likewise ceased when the funding shortfall continued, and the workshop resumed a van route of its own to the county last August.
The termination of FORE’s transportation service to Rappahannock this May was a direct result of the Board of Supervisors’ refusal to appropriate tax dollars for the workshop. “Between the insurance, maintenance, and gas, it was costing almost $500 a week to send the van to Rappahannock twice a day, and most of the Rappahannock clients were unfunded,” Mr. Zindel explained. “We were just breaking even on the work they were doing; there was no profit. We couldn’t justify taking money from somewhere else to pay for the transportation. If we’d done that, we’d have gone broke in a couple of years! If Rappahannock County had put forth even some effort, we could have covered the deficit (in transportation costs),
See FORE, p. 12
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