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site is conditional upon construction beginning in two years. “Two years goes by just like that,” said Col. Luke, recalling that it took the county seven years to determine who owned the old Scrabble School, thought initially to belong either to the county or to the Rappahannock School Board but in fact finally discovered to be in private ownership.
According to the former Piedmont District supervisor, there are other question marks surrounding the new library: Does the county want to buy the old church if it’s no longer to be used as a library? Who’s going to pay operational costs for the much bigger new library'? How much is the county going to be asked to provide towards construction bills?
“We need decisions now. These questions need to be raised publicly" he said, in apparent reference to the secrecy maintained by the Board of Trustees over plans to build a new library on the two acres donated by Mr. Morehouse. (A public airing of the Board of Trustees’ intentions came only with a proposal two months ago for a zoning ordinance amendment to allow libraries by special exception in agricultural zones and the subsequent application for such a permit.)
He also recalled that Bird Jones had willed a lot to the library on the condition that it be used within 10 years or the bequest would go to first, the 4-H Center and second, the Washington Volunteer Fire Department. “Five years have already gone by. What’s happening? There’s another asset.”
According to County Administrator John McCarthy, the Board of Supervisors has the power to disband the library’s Board of Trustees, and just as with the fire and
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