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Ana li lor some unknowable reasons, the voters of the county decided to throw out the lot of them— or more reasonably, if some of the five supervisors decided to retire and the others were voted out, and if, to boot, the county’s administrator decided to take a hike, county government would simply be devastated.
We would be left with the equivalent of infants crawling on the carpet; mistakes would be made, suits would be filed, and monies would be thrown at the problems of keeping up.
In the meantime, nothing positive would get done.
The solution to such a calamity was pointed out recently by County Administrator John McCarthy, and a chord was struck. Staggered terms, though a bit awkward at the beginning, would obviate the threat of losing all the institutional knowledge at once.
Staggered terms are such a fine idea, we believe, that we wonder why the matter has been allowed to rest for so long. McCarthy has one answer: “Inertia is a powerful thing,” he said, in spite of the common change in the state over the years to staggered terms.
We think the time has come. We should not be left like the man who buys a fire extinguisher after his house has burned down. Before Rappahannock staggers, the county should stagger its terms, and with all due haste.
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