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Four handicapped residents of Rappahannock County again have transportation to jobs and training programs at the FORE sheltered workshop in Remington, thanks to a six-month trial van route offered by the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Center.
“I want to publicly commend this little lady,” said Supervisor Ellis Bingham, announcing that the Center’s executive director, Jo Gorman, had personally worked to arrange the transportation.
“I know we can’t do anything about it now, but for next year’s budget cycle, when this little lady stands up and says, ‘This is what we’re doing, and this is what we need,’ we’re really going to have to look at what she’s asking.”
Formerly, FORE’s Rappahannock clients were driven to and from Remington in the sheltered workshop’s van but the service was discontinued last summer after the county’s Board of Supervisors denied FORE’s request for $12,500 to cover the transportation cost.
It was the second time clients here lost their ride; FORE began its van route to Rappahannock after declining federal and state dollars forced the Community Services Center to drop its contributions, which had included transportation services.
In an Oct. 19 letter to Col. Bingham, Ms. Gorman noted that the van route costs between $16,000 and $20,000 to operate. “With only two public riders and four FORE clients who received no reimbursement from the Department of Rehabilitative Services, the route was costing far more than any other and had no apparent potential to develop and expand, thus eventually decreasing its cost,” Ms. Gorman wrote.
“In addition, sadly we continue to struggle with public funds for other services (including van runs transporting far more than six people) declining annually and forcing a continual
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