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The town hopes homeowners recognize the need for the new system which will ultimately benefit them regardless of whether those benefits accrue immediately. Those who currently have working septic systems do not benefit from the project in the short term. Paying for the new town system is a longer term investment for them.
In larger jurisdictions, the process for initiating a capital project such as the Town of Washington’s is much more rigorous. A capital budget is proposed with funding sources identified in detail, a referendum and/or bond authorization voted on, legal instruments such as eminent domain executed and only then would a project proceed.
The Town of Washington, however, worked backwards into the project based on the amount of money it could get in a loan from the VRA. It authorized a bond without a referendum, designed and initiated the project and then went public to the townsfolk with the financing details.
Welcome to the world of small jurisdictions with parttime governing bodies and little or no paid staff. Resource funds such as those provided by the Virginia Resource Authority were put in place precisely to help small towns like Washington afford expensive projects, said county administrator John McCarthy.
Those looking for any examples of a process similar to what the town has been trying to wade through need only look a few miles down the road to Sperryville. Its sewer project was handled in much the same way, said McCarthy, literally going door to door to ask people to
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