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misinform - when the details are things only accountants, attorneys, and policy wonks love to chew over.
But if one really does care about what happens here, then bear down, grit your teeth and get with it. Here is an attempt to explain what’s going on. Performance Contracting
The proposed $2.5 million contract would be funded by the Virginia Resource Authority - the same agency that lent money to the Town of Washington to build the new sewer system.
If the funding were a low interest loan, the county would be on the hook: if it were a “lease/purchase” agreement with the VRA, then that agency would
See CONTRACT, Page A9
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