<Some people now feel

<Some people now feel

that RAAC is competing

for the same audience

with these other groups,

as well as for the same

money.'

— Sid Gottlieb

RAAC member

heady stuff with a tremendous diversity of opinions,” he said.

Many in the community assisted in compiling the report. Civic group leaders and members, artists, media representatives, school officials, county residents, attorneys and firefighters spoke while the RAAC Futures Committee listened.

“Just as Rappahannock County is going through a transition, RAAC is going through a transition,” Mr. Gottlieb said, and the review was an “attempt to study that transition and how it affects artists and their groups.”

“It was very directional,” Mr. Gottlieb said of the report, adding already many of the points approached by the committee have already been acted upon by RAAC.

The report covered various topics: everything from the scope and quantity of RAAC activity, to film ideas and dates, to more artistic support of local artists, to artistic productions in schools, to community relationships, volunteerism, finances and the board of trustees.

“We are still looking at the review,” the new president Mr. Tompkins said, adding items are “still perculating” as committees deal with addressed issues and resolve others. s'

As the review neared its completion, the situation with RAAC and the theater on Gay Street changed.

These changes greatly affected the review as well as RAAC’s affiliation with art in* the community.

“Now, we are responding to the report,” Mr. Tompkins said, adding that as the Futures Committee dissolves and new RAAC committees are started, “RAAC is taking action.”