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BOS
approves
lights, 4-1
By J.vmk.s p. Gannon
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Night football, baseball and softball games on school fields are commit to Rappahannock County later this year under a county-backed plan approved Monday evening by the Board of Supervisors,
The vote to upprove the controversial proposal was 4 to 1. with Supervisor Roger Welch of Wakefield District dissenting.
The decision was a major victory for the Ruppahunnock County School Sports Association, which put on a well-organixed campaign to gain county backing of the project, and a deteat for citizen opponents who objected that the lights would spoil the county's famous dark skies and would put taxpayers on the hook for making the $38,178 annual payments over 10 years if RCSSA fails to raise the money through donations, as promised.
Under the 10-year lease-purchase agreement approved by the board, Musco Lighting, an Iowabased sports-lights producer, will install lighting systems on the football/soccer field at Rappahannock County High School, and the baseball and softball fields at Rappahannock County Elementary School.
The lights will consist of banks of down shielded 1,500-watt bulbs mounted on galvunued steel poles 60 feet to 80 feet tall: four such poles will light the football/soccer field, six poles will be installed at the baseball field and four at the softball field.
The price tag on the installed system is 9395.000. Kls&HA* says an anonymous tkmor has given $ tOt),000 toward the project, reducing the amount to be financed and underwritten by the county government to $295,000. Payments at 4.88 percent interest over 10 years would be $38,178 annually. RCSSA reiterated its confidencu Monday that it will be able to raise enough each year to make the payments, but the contract makes cleur that the county is obligated to pay if the group’s fund-raising falls short, Peter Luke, the board’s attorney told the supervisors.
Before the supervisors voted, Luke briefed the board on his extensive discussions with officials of Musco Lighting and its financing arm, Musco Finance, on the terms of the agreement and the risks to the county if udopted.
Luke told the board there are risks in both the
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