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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
After 2 Vi years Rappahannock County has received a bid of $54,000 for renovating the County Courthouse to provide handicapped access, and the Board of Supervisors voted at their regular monthly meeting Monday to accept the bid.
The cost will be $24,000 more than the $30,000 the county has budgeted for the project, and the rest of the money will have to come from the county’s surplus.
The project will include the installation of a chairlift running along the wall of the stairway leading from the first floor to the courtroom. The chair will be supplied and installed by Bedco Mobility Systems of Hyattsville, Md., for $34,000.
The other parts of the project, building a ramp from the back parking lot to a window on the first floor which will be replaced by a door, relocating a radiator now under that window', and replacing the current bathroom with one accessible to the handicapped, will be done by local contractor Jack Jenkins for $20,000.
Bedco is the only firm that can supply a chairlift that will meet Rappahannock’s needs, according to County Administrator John McCarthy. The county is limited because the stairs leading to the courtroom are already at the minimum width allowed by the building code. Other chairlift systems which attach to the steps would narrow the stairw'ay. Because the Bedco chairlift attaches to the wall, it is not considered to narrow the steps. The chairlift will be able to handle either a passenger in a wheelchair or one seated on a seat included with the lift, Mr. McCarthy said.
Dumpster violations threaten closure " The board received bad news about continuing violations of the county’s laws on the use of the dumpsters at Huntly and Scrabble and at the Amissville landfill site. The main problem at the dumpster sites, Mr. McCarthy told the board, is that the public continues to deposit “white goods” (large appliances such as stoves and washing machines) in the dumpsters rather than taking them to the landfill as the law requires.
The Solid Waste Advisory Committee recommends that the dumpster sites be closed unless this can be stopped, he added.
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