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Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Bill Kossler CONTEMPLATING: Chairman Charles “Pete” Estes considers county’s construction concerns.
would investigate General Steel that very day, but about the current proposal he said. “This is a preengineered steel structure” for the most part and the part that isn’t, “the masonry walls, the architect says we need.”
This brought forth an impassioned response from Jackson District Board member Ronald Frazier. “Our problem is this architect. He low-balled this project. The architect, he’s put the people of Rappahannock into a very serious situation... we’re here because the architect screwed up. That’s why you’re standing here today. We borrowed the amount of money you asked for, and now we don’t have enough,” lectured Frazier.
Oliver, Webb, Pappas and Rhudy, the architectural firm in question, is based in Blacksburg, Virginia, and specializes in projects of this nature.
Unhappy not only about the financial shortfall, Frazier went on. “If you compare what we spend on 4-H to what we spend on football, baseball, basketball, track, soccer and so on and so on, it’s so much more (for sports). I wonder about our priorities here”.
The board then discussed various potential cost-saving alternatives. Stonewall-Hawthome District Board
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