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seller to seek a court injunction to have the building restored and any addition in violation of the agreement removed. "This is a less severe penalty than reversion," Mr. Luke said.
The supervisors approved this change in the agreement, but balked at a request by the town that two large spruce trees, one on Town Hall property and one that would remain on town property be protected from any damage by the addition of septic system and replaced if killed.
"You don’t know until you start digging those lines if you’re going to damage that tree,” Stonewall Hawthorn District representative Robert Anderson said.
"1 think the town is getting a splendid deal, and I’m going to drag my feet on the trees and not go for replanting," Piedmont District Supervisor Charles K. “Pete" Estes said. "I feel like we've just jumped through enough hoops.”
The supervisors agreed that they would try to preserve the trees, but decided to strike out those sentences in the proposed agreement that called for providing “first aid” for the trees and replanting, if a tree died, with another at least 10 feet tall.
"I don’t think any of us wants to destroy a tree that old,” Jackson District representative Ellis Bingham said.
If the town agrees to that change and the Library Board also agrees to the contract, the sale’can proceed, Mr. Luke said.
In other actions at Monday’s special meeting, the board:
• learned that U.S. 17 between Marshall and Warrenton should be reopened to tractor-trailor traffic in a few weeks (see separate story).
• voted to. appoint Donald Gore as the county’s Emergency Medical Services Coordinator to replace Frank Huff, who resigned.
• decided to request the state to hold a public hearing on designating
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