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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Last week’s Washington Town Council meeting was the last for four of the seven members. At the meeting’s end, it was an emotional goodbye for outgoing Mayor Dean Morehouse, Treasurer Brad Fisher, and council members Susan Parrish and Mark Bailey.
Mayor Morehouse presented all members of his council with a plaque containing a poem entitled “And Then Some,” and Ray Gooch read it aloud.
A lot was “cleaned off the plates” at this last meeting. The 1995 town budget passed easily. A public hearing had been held on the budget one week prior to this meeting.
Mayor Morehouse announced that he had bids from two surveyors, John Baumgardner and Wayne Niskanen, and he asked for authorization to negotiate with them for survey work, not to exceed $9,000. A new survey is being done of the streets and boundaries of the town, which will include the stub streets as town property.
Town Attorney Frank Reynolds said that he thinks the town will have to accept the private deeds and surveys as they are now, but the town does not presently have a survey of the streets.
Mr. Gooch said, “My front yard is in jeopardy depending on how the survey of the stub streets go. I wonder is there ought not to be some opportunity once the survey is completed to be presented to the town residents before it is recorded.
Mayor Morehouse answered, “Absolutplv.”
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