Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 1 · column 2 of 3 · from the scan, no model involved
Supervisors
approve $22
million budget By Jason Peck Rapoahannock. News Staff Writer By a 4-1 vote. Rappahannock County supervisors approved a $22 million operating budget for the 2009 fiscal year which begins July 1. By another 4-1 vote, they approved a one-cent increase in the real estate tax rate, raising the amount from 59 cents to 60 cents' Supervisor Roger Welch voted against both measures at a meeting Tuesday, and suggested across-the-board cuts as a possible solution. But Supervisor Ron Frazier said that such a move came too late. “II we were going to do an across-the-board cut. we should have done it," Frazier said. • See BUDGET, Page A2
Bids due July 2 to build
town’s wastewater system By Timothy R. Thompson Rappahannock News Staff Writer The Town.of Washington hopefully will have a wastewater treatment plant in the next 18 months if there are no glitches. Construction bids are due by July 2; however, there will not be a decision on the winning bidder at the July 9 Town Council meeting. The town has up to 90 days to approve and award the contract. Mayor Eugene Leggett said in an interview this week that “once the contract is awarded work will start immediately, with construction scheduled to take no more than 330 days (providing no set backs).” There are many more steps once the bids are in including reviews by engineers and attorneys. “At the earliest, we are looking at August.” to determine the winning bidder, said Laura Dodd, town clerk. “Currently the town is on septic with many people wanting to get off of the current system,” said Leggett. Many of the town's septic systems are failing. Washington has been looking into a waste «. tinimi plant since 1991. According to Dodd, the first feasibility study was done that year, “with many more since then. This has been a topic of most monthly council meetings.” There has been a lot of work done on the system over the years, according to the mayor. “Some work has been carefully recorded, and some has not," he said. “If you have a water system you can get by without a sewage system, ami if you have a sewage system you can get by without a water system. But we are reaching a place where we need to have both,” said Leggett. The town has had a water system since 1930 and over the past two years “we have doubled the size of the reservoir from 100,000 gallons to 225,000 gallons." said the mayor.
55.0%