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(Editor's Note: The following letter was delivered to the Board of Supervisors at their meeting this week, addressed to Charles K. Estes, chairman.)
Dear Mr. Estes,
As your neighbors and friends, we are writing to you out of concern that the Sperryville Gateway Project, which began amid high hopes more than three years ago, has been bogged down amid delay and inaction for too long.
As you know, the Board of Supervisors voted in January of 1999 to support a citizengenerated proposal for a Federal Transportation Enhancement grant for improvements to the Main Street historic district. In June of 1999, fully three years ago now, the Virginia Department of Transportation awarded a grant of more than $200,000 to the Sperryville Gateway Project.
Among other things, the project envisioned: 1) building a new pedestrian bridge over the Thornton River linking Main Street with the business area occupied by Faith Mountain Company; 2) improving drainage on floodprone Main Street; 3) creation of safe pedestrian walkways where none exist now on busy Main Street; 4) other enhancements, including burying utility lines, landscaping, street lighting, signs, etc., if funds permit.
Though the county has had access to the $200,000 grant for three years, little has been accomplished. The county hired the Frank Cox Company, an engineering firm, to oversee the project in May 2000. What has Cox accomplished in two years?
Our recent discovery that more than $60,000 of the grant has already been spent, with no visible result, only increases our concern.
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