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Economic
Development
Advisory
Committee to
meet May 11
Supervisors approve
schools’ budget
By Stephen Darking
Rappahannock News Staff Wnter
A newly created Economic Development Advisory Committee will meet for the first time on May 11 at 10 a.m. at the Rappahannock County Library to study two reports on workforce demographics in the region.
With very little discussion, the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors at its meeting this past Monday approved a slate of names recommended by County Administrator John McCarthy to serve on the Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC) which was set up to explore ways to encourage economic development within the constraints of the county Comprehensive Plan.
The EDAC wall act as a public body and all meetings will be publicized in advance. The public is invited to attend the meetings.
The two regional workforce reports the group will study were done by the RappahannockRapidan Regional Commission and the University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research.
There were 17 applicants who expressed an interest in serving on the committee However 11 were selected by McCarthy to roughly represent agriculture, hospitality and small business with an attempt also to balance geographic areas and gender, according to a letter from McCarthy to the Liard.
The slate recommended by McCarthy, plus a member of the board. Roger Welch, was approved unanimously by the supervisors. There was no comment from the public prior to the vote.
Those selected to servo on the EDAC are:
• Barbara Adolfi - Hospitality, Piedmont District. Adolfi and her husband Ray Boc own and run The House on Water Street in Sperryville.
• John Genho - Agriculture, Stonewall Hawthorne District. Genho is the general manager at Eldon Farms in Woodvilie. He has lived in the county for four years, and has a Masters Degree in Animal Genetics from Cornell University.
• Ben Jones - Small Business, Hampton District. Started Cooler’s Place in Sperryville, but now has very large store in Gatlinburg, Tenn. and smaller ones in Nashville and Branson, Mo. However the business is still based in Rappahannixk.
See EDAC, Page A7
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