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Not to be outdone by her tenacious counterpart at Rappahannock County Public Schools, Kathy Grove, head of school at Wakefield Country Day School in Flint Hill submitted her own list of school facilities improvements along much the same lines as Dr. Bob Chappell’s for the public schools except that Grove also asks for funding of four tennis courts.
Dr. Chappell was one of the very first to submit proposals for the stimulus money for the repair and upgrade of school facilities including a new ceiling insulation. asbestos removal, and a new roof for the elementary school.
The three requests - submitted by Pat Giles, Michelle Schwartz and JC Platt - for Town of Washington sewer funding essentially ask to cover the sewer hook-up fees due to economic hardship.
Emergency services coordinator Richie Burke asked for $250,000 for an addition to the Spenyville fire house.
There was also a submission to create a “Solar Electric Cooperative” in the Rappahannock region to install solar electric systems in low income households. Cost: $5 million.
And lastly, a hefty faithbased initiative, $2.5 million, for “clean tech jobs,” ( whatever those are, it was unclear in the description.)
There were smaller proposals also for things like educational programs, a regional literary magazine, and commemorating the Civil War Sesquicentennial.
The cutoff for stimulus requests was early March.
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