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“They’re not afraid of you,” explained attorney Peter Luke. “But they become targets at these public hearings. They don’t complain about their treatment from the board. They complain about the treatment from their neighbors!”
• declared Christmas EVe and New Year’s Eve half-day holidays for county employees, again by a four-one vote with Mr. Massie opposed. “I’m not a holiday person. . . I’m glad you all are so free with the taxpayers’ money,” he chided his fellow board members.
Mr. McCarthy explained that with Christmas and New Year’s falling on Sunday this year, Monday, Dec. 26, and Monday, Jan. 2, are holidays. In addition, the governor is expected to designate the preceding Fridays as either half or whole days off, and no matter what the Rappahannock board decides, action from Gov. Balilies will take precedent, the county administrator said.
• tabled action on the Health Department’s request for appointing an advisory board, expressing concern that such a board will be nothing more than a lobbying group pressur
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