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Capita
passes despite
heated debate
The Planning Commission voted 5-to^l to recommend the Board of Supervisors adopt the revised Capital Improvements Plan last Wednesday, following an acrimonious debate.
The plan for the fiscal years beginning with 1998 and running through 1997, calls for $715,000 in capital imporovements next year, $474,500 in 1994, $623,000 in 1995, $510,000 in 1996, and $124,000 in 1997.
The plan for next year calls for $85,000 to purchase and develop a "waste transfer station,” $58,000 for two school buses, $30,000 for two new vehicles for the, sheriffs department, $410,000 for improvements to the landfill, $17,000 to begin the process of automating records as the Treasurer’s and Commissioner of Revenue’s offices, $7,500 for improvements to the Cleric’s office, $7,500 for microfilming records m that office and, $100,000 to purchase a site for school expansion. Funds , for a middle school or for additions to the existing schools are not included in the plan.
Chairman Allen Stokes suggested that since most' people who came out for the hearing on school expansion opposed building a middle school, $100,000 should ^ be dropped from the plan. ,j
Wakefield District representative Werner Krebser and Stonewall-Hawthom District representative Sharon Pierce immediately opposed this suggestion.
“The least you should do is buy the land,” Dr. Krebser said. “Even if you don’t need it for 10 years, it would be a good investment. ”
Mr. Stokes said, “As soon as you buy land, they are going to want to build a building.”
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Bappahannoek Newt Staff Writer
See CAPITAL PLAN, p. 5
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