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Agency heads
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School site, office
space are key needs
By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“The county complex needs office space and the school board needs to consider buying land," concluded John McCarthy, summarizing the informal needs assessment conducted by the Planning Commission in its ongoing revision of Rappahannock’s comprehensive plan.
For last week’s commission meeting, agency heads and constitutional officers were asked to report on their anticipated space requirements for the next five years. The request originated with Hampton District Supervisor Mike Massie and came in response to former board chairman E.P. Luke’s complaints about the county’s lack of planning for capital improvements such as the landfill, the jail renovation and expansion, and the new library.
The superintendent of schools and the two county extension agents appeared in person at Wednesday’s meeting; other agencies responded in writing to the county administrator.
Repeating a presentation given at the January School Board session, Superintendent David Gangel told the commissioners that with an annual growth rate of one to two percent, the elementary school will be at the “trigger” enrollment of 610 in four years and with a four percent growth rate, the “trigger" would be reached in just one year. (With planning and design taking a year, the wait for Literary Loan funds now two years, and construction taking another year, the “trigger” comes four years prior to capacity to allow time for expansion before
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