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particular, for whom parents worry “What’s going to happen to my son or my daughter after I die?”
The new building will provide the space for new programs that will help alleviate those worries, Ms. Gorman told the supervisors. But leaving aside the humanitarian reasons, there are sound financial arguments in favor of providing local programs for the retarded, she said, reporting that to maintain a person at a state institution costs $28,000 a year while providing a client with the full range of services available from the CSB costs just $7,500.
The boards of supervisors in Culpeper and Fauquier counties have already given their blessings to the proposal for buying the old armory, Ms. Gorman said. She pointed out that she must still get the concurrence of the Madison and Orange boards as well as approval from the State Department of Mental Health for the expenditure of the new initiative funds for this purpose.
Not only did the Rappahannock supervisors endorse the CSB’s purchase of the $175,000 property — on which it holds a contingency contract good until Feb. 1 — but they also instructed County Administrator John McCarthy to write a letter to the State Department of Mental Health, urging approval for use of the initiative funds for the $40,000 down payment.
Ms. Gorman’s announcement of the. proposed capital expenditure came during a presentation explaining the function of the CSB. She described the Community Services Board as a “revenue-driven business serving customers ... a rarity among public agencies.” To provide programs for the elderly, the mentally retarded, the mentally ill, substances abusers and troubled families and individuals who are clients of the five local family guidance centers and to run the transportation system that is the agency’s “life blood,” the^CSB employs 237 people, making it an important component of the regional economic picture, Ms. Gorman said. In addition, “we try to purchase locally and to use local vendors,” the executive director noted.
According" to 1985 statistics, the Rappahannock- Rapidan Community Services Board provided 21,000 hours of outpatient services, well above the 12,000 hours for the second-ranked Richmond CSB, she said. On the input side, Ms. Gorman said, the agency receives just $2,44 per capita from the local governments of the five counties it covers compared to more than $9 per capita as an average for the state’s CSBs.
The agency has countered drastic cuts in federal funds with revenue from customer fees, the executive director continued. By providing quality care to attract private, pay
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