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Several questions were addressed directly to School Superintendent Dr. Bob Chappell at last Friday's Board of Supervisors public hearing on the schools and county budgets. The following are some of the questions and Dr. Chappell's responses:
Q. Has the RCPS paid to remove modular trailers three times? A. We have reviewed the school budgets from 2003 through 2009 and can find no entries for removing modular trailers.
Q. Why are we paying for county vehicles to be used for people to go joy riding? Why are we paying for people to drive their buses home?
Hearing
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new debt, that taxpayers would be responsible for the next 30 years.
Leading off comment from the public was county resident Sharon Kilpatrick who said she was disappointed that the contract with Ameresco was taken off the agenda.
“It was reported in the Rappahannock News that Tbm Junk said this was a matter of trust," said Kilpatrick.
“Well, he and Mr. Cordani have spent the last 15 years destroying trust between voters."
Junk responded with a quip about his grandfather’s horses - don’t sav a horse has been stolen from one’s field until you look in the bam - but before the debate got too roiled. Chairman Bob Anderson reminded evenone that they “were not going to speak on Ameresco,” this evening.
Roger Cordani (also of Concerned Taxpayers) remarked that “it took a lot of wind out of what people wanted to say when you all took Ameresco off the board.”
Actually, the topics shifted pretty quickly to faulty HVAC systems and controls, school administrators and whether they were actually needed, and school buses being driven home by drivers.
One of the big issues was what was perceived as the constant state of disrepair of HVAC systems, what money had been budgeted in the past and whether, if anything, had been done about these problems - the explicit refrain being to fix what the schools had before spending more money on a new system.
Walt Longyear - owner of Fair lea Farms B&B - referenced a management report by a consulting firm done last year and wanted to know if the schools had acted on any of the recommendations.
“Do we have too may positions, administrators...or don’t we have too may teachers, too many staff,” he asked.
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