The Board of Supervisors meeting last week was thought provoking to say the least.

The Davenport presentation on possible options to deal with the Tuckahoe Creek Service District (TCSD) indebtedness should be enough to keep folks talking for awhile. It takes one back to budget meetings earlier this year when TCSD district homeowners maintained the debt was a county problem, not to be solved by forever increasing the ad valorem tax rate on them. They were of course countered by others who said that those living outside the district should not be made responsible for paying the debt, no matter that the idea was that it would benefit the entire county by attracting development and increasing the tax base and thus county revenue.

Now it appears the board will consider the options (which include raising the property tax countywide) during next year’s budget process, conveniently after this fall’s election.

Seems like voters might want to inquire of supervisor candidates what they think of each of the options before casting their ballots November 8.

The evening meeting and the decision to delay the vote on Benedictine for 90 days was also a head shaker, particularly when one notes that the delay allows the supervisors to avoid casting a vote on the issue until after the election. Certainly there was some propaganda swirling about but was a 90-day delay necessary? Wouldn’t 60 days have been enough?
That would have brought the issue back before the board a week before the election.

Curious.

Parking woes at GHS

By the time this edition hits the street the School Board will have met for their September meeting. It will be interesting to see how many folks turn out to voice their opinion on the increased GHS parking fee. Passed this summer, it still seems to arouse strong opposition.

On a lighter note

This weekend brings Field Day of the Past back once again. For those who like old things (and I count myself among that number), it’s just a great big old carnival of old stuff, old cars, old tools, old machinery and all manner of once modern technology, now obsolete but once vital to the economy. All they need to add is an antique aircraft fly-over to make it complete. But then they’ve done that before, too. I know since I found an old black and white print in a desk drawer at the office from a Field Day some years back showing three bi-planes passing over the grounds.

One might think that Field Day only appeals to the older set but every time I’ve been there I’ve seen plenty of the younger crowd as well. Let’s hope the weather cooperates and makes this year’s edition of Field Day a pleasant one.