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tinned. but warned of “the law of unintended consequences” in trying to do something good for the school children. “Artificially lighting the shy of Rappahannock County is a kind of collateral damage” from a well-meaning proposul. he said. “Why rush to a lifechanging decision?” he asked, urging the board to postpone any decision until September, after additional study and a full public hearing.
Tom Junk of Sperryville, who heads the Concerned Taxpayers of Rappahannock. warned that the costs of the plan may fall on the county taxpayer. even though the association promises to privately raise enough to. make the annual $51,000 payments. “Rappahannock taxpayers are going to pay for this, no matter what,” Junk said. He also argued that there will be a “social cost” of night games, including the need for police security at games and the risk of more late-night driving by teenagers and parents.
Monica Worth, president of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, said “we want to support our schools,” but if a similar lighting plan were proposed by commercial interests, “we would have a lot of questions.” She urged limits on the number of events at the lighted fields and raised doubts that in the current troubled economy that RCSSA could raise enough in donations to pay the annual costs of the lease for 10 years.
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