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in which a contract had already been negotiated and \^as pending approval.
People were angry Tuesday night and fed up. But over what, exactly?
McCarthy, sensing growing resistance, on Monday pulled the Ameresco contract from the agenda for tomorrow’s budget hearing at the high school (7:30 p,m. in the auditorium) citing that there wasn’t enough time to prepare documents in time for a Virginia Resource Authority deadline - the financing agency that would have underwritten the contract.
Some had already claimed a victory on Rappnet (the email list serve that serves as a county public forum.)
But that didn’t stop the flood of sentiment.
Junk and Cordani remained calm and made very good points - they had obviously done some research — but they very nearly lost control of the meeting.
Randy Smoot pressed School Board Chairman Wes Mills over and over to answer what percentage of local contractors would be included in the contract but he left little space for Mills to answer.
“Are you one of these people who want to hire someone out of the county?” asked a clearly incensed Smoot.
Cordani gave a good explanation about how he believed the baseline energy consumption - which would be used to measure energy savings in the contract - was inflated, that there were cost saving
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