By SHARON KILPATRICK

By SHARON KILPATRICK

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

Rappahannock taxpayers face two more years of heavy expenses for capital improvements if all the proposals outlined in the plan County Administrator John McCarthy submitted to the Planning Commission are approved by the Board of Supervisors.

Mr. McCarthy listed $489,000 for capital improvements for budget year 1991, which starts next July 1. Of that total, $100,000 is allocated toward the purchase of Washington’s Town Hall, $25,000 will be used to replace the roof over the high school auditorium and cafeteria, $55,000 is to purchase two new diesel school buses, $26,000 is to purchase two new vehicles for the Sheriff’s Department and $150,000 is pledged toward work on developing the next cell for trash burial at the landfill.

Elsewhere in the county, $7,500 is proposed to begin a lease-purchase of computer equipment and software to automate the records and billing at the Commissioner of Revenue’s and Treasurer's offices, $7,500 is for dog runs at the animal shelter, $17,500 is for repairs to the Clerk’s office, and $100,000 is for the new library.

Mr, McCarthy explained that while some of the start-up expenses for the landfill will not have to be repeated, there will be continued expenses for excavating new landfill “cell” space, for lining those cells, for drainage pipes to direct runoff to the runoff pond and leachate to the leachate collection pond and for a road system so the new areas could be used. •

On repairs to the Clerk’s office. Mr. McCarthy said $17,500 was an estimate of what it might cost to excavate around the basement wall where water is seeping into the basement, repair the damage and perhaps do “some shoring up.”

County Clerk Diane Bruce wrote to Mr. McCarthy last month to report that water seepage is causing damage to old county records stored in the basement. In addition to repairs to the building she had recommended filters for the windows and fluorescent lights to filter out ultraviolet light, which is harmful to the records, and new storage shelves and boxes so the materials could be stored unfolded and flat.

Ms. Bruce also recommended that the county get in- • volved in microfilming the materials so that the actual records could be stored in Richmond while the microfilm would be kept in the county.

As for the $100,900 request for the library, Mr. McCarthy explained it wras received from Library Board Chairman William Young on the day of the October Planning Commission meeting. Mr. McCarthy said his understanding is that it will be used to complete the multipurpose room.

“I thought they were going to do it all,” Wakefield representative Werner Krebser said.

“They want another $100,000 for a worse-case scenario,” Jackson District representative David Fannon said.

Dr. Krebser said he understood the Library Board was scaling down the size of the new library.

See CIP, p. 14