Comments on: State Supreme Court Hears Old School Arguments https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/state-supreme-court-hears-old-school-arguments/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Wayne Creed https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/state-supreme-court-hears-old-school-arguments/#comment-24109 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:52:59 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9558#comment-24109 Town attorney Michael Sterling attended? Indeed, I hope he brought his knitting — wouldn’t want him sitting there all day billing us for doing nothing. Just who authorized this expenditure? Now really, if we go back and tally up all the hours spent by Town staff doing the leg work for Echelon (look, I understand where Echy’s coming from. When your office is the trunk of a car, you just have to leverage the old taxpayer now and then), and all the hours billed by two of the most expensive law firms in the state, just how much is the Town into it over this deal so far? I wonder what the rate on our municipal insurance is going to look like next year? It’s not ending yet either, dear citizens. They will have to replace the basketball courts. How much will that cost — $100,000? Yet more, their racist backtracking must inevitably lead down the path to the Rosenwald Colored School in order to find some sliver of redemption (how much of the $600,000 asking price will the Cape Charles taxpayer be in for?). Yeah, I know, the path to salvation is narrow and as difficult to walk as the razor’s edge. I just didn’t know it would cost so much.

]]> By: Deborah Bender https://capecharleswave.com/2013/10/state-supreme-court-hears-old-school-arguments/#comment-24073 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:46:26 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=9558#comment-24073 I personally like the fact that the town manager used the excuse that the building was in terrible condition and they had no money to work on it. A short time later the town manager certified to the Department of Historic Resources that the building was in good shape! Ms. Arcos, was the building in good shape or terrible shape?

Secondly, we supposedly had no money to repair the school, yet days after the “sale,” the town used bond money, set aside for the tapping of new wells, to buy the old bank to use for a library. Ms. Arcos, did we have money or not?

If the town had kept the school in good shape, following their own code, and used the insurance money and half of what they spent on lawyers to fight OSCC, that would have been a huge shot in the arm for repairs, and we would have a community center for everyone in the town to use.

But for some reason our town officials bent over backwards to give our historic old school, basketball court, and playground parking lot to a developer. I wonder why.

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