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Mike Leake, president and CEO of Rappahannock. National Bank, spoke about “amortizing payments over time as a way to blunt the costs homeowners will have to bear: His family owns property on Main Street.
Some of those who spoke tried to suggest that the council had not adequately prepared residents for the costs they would have to pay, but council member Claudia Mitchell was having none of that.
“Having people here tonight is like night and day,” she said. “All those years we went over ail of this there were like five people at those meetings, and three of them didn't even live in the town “ People have said they never heard about the details of the project, she said, quite simply because they “never came to the meetings.*
However, she did take a more conciliatory tone when, it came to discussing payment options for town
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