Editorials
What to do with extra $5.7 million?
Pittsylvania County’s once-in-a-generation high school renovations won’t cost as much as first thought. The $70 million project will actually cost $64.3 million.
So what will happen to the remaining $5.7 million?
Should it be used to help pay down the remainder of the previously approved bond projects? Or should the money — the result of the county’s typical thrift and these tight times — be used for special projects at the four high schools?
Taxpayers frustrated by any increase in the cost of government at every level will want the money used to pay down in the bonds. Parents of the county’s school children will want to hear more about those proposed projects because their kids will…
