Contact Lists

If you want to talk to Page County Watch, email us at:  Research@PageCountyWatch.org

If you want to be on our newsletter, email NewsList@PageCountyWatch.org   You must include your name and address to be on the newslist. 

Page County Watch is entirely an Internet group.  We don't have physical meetings. 

Who ya' gonna' call?

There's just nothing like that personal contact.  If you have researched an issue and you want to talk to your supervisor about it, give him or her a call.  Particularly right around dinner time, like the telemarketers do. 

To find out who you elected to be your representative on the County Board of Supervisors, you have to know what district you live in.  If you don't know, call the county registrar at 743-3986 and ask her.  When you find out what your district is, then call the Supervisor for your district.

The Supervisors are:

Tommy LaFrance, At Large (this means EVERYBODY can call him, no matter what district you are from)  743-3715

Charlie Hoke, District 1, 743-9434

John Rust, District 2, 743-5316 

Charles Ballard, District 3, write Dr. Ballard at P O Box 63, Stanley, 22851.  As he is recovering from an illness, your best bet is to call Tommy La France instead.

Gerald Cubbage, District 4, 778-3227

Carol Lee Fisher-Strickler, District 5, 652-3211

If you want to get information about upcoming meetings, minutes, and agendas, go to the county website at:

http://www.PageCounty.Virginia.gov

If you want Freedom of Information Act stuff, call the county administration office at 743-4142

If you want to talk to the county Registrar about elections stuff, call 743-3986

Who is Page County Watch?
 

(Note that we are not a government agency.  We are a citizens group.  We are not developers, just a group of 55 citizens of Page County)

Where it all started
In early December, 2006, a Page County citizen noticed an eensy, teensy announcement in the local paper about changes being made to the Flood Plain ordinance.  He realized this action would bludgeon his chances of building a cabin on the river, so he wrote a Letter to the Editor.    Another citizen saw his letter and became alarmed.  She called everyone she knew to come to the Board meeting on a Winter weeknight right before Christmas.  The people were appalled at what they saw.  The Board was seriously about to pass a proposal that would decimate their property values!
 
A Worry Became an Outrage
People were flabbergasted to learn that those who they thought were elected to serve their interests were actually harming them.   The citizens thought, “The Board must not have read that proposal.  We better educate them so they understand what they are doing.”  The citizens began researching laws, analyzing documents, and writing letters.  They began showing up at the Planning Commission Work Sessions, just to see what could possibly be in the heads of people who would do such a thing.  The Commission’s response to the citizen interest was to move the flood plain issue to the end of the agenda, so that people who drove in from out of town and took a day off work would have to wait two hours before the relevant conversation started.  When the Flood Plain issue started, the County Administrator got up and left the room.
 
The Light Dawned
While sitting in the hallway for two hours, waiting for the meeting to start, the people realized there was no appeal for decisions of the County Supervisors.   There is no state authority over them.  If, by chance, someone on the Board had a personal agenda, or was carrying on a vendetta, or was just plain ignorant, they could get a law passed to serve their own interests, rather than those of the citizens.   There would be nothing the citizens could do except wait for the next election.   Individuals who were harmed would have no recourse except to pay fruitless lawyer bills and ruin their own lives.   The Supervisors were all powerful, with no overseeing authority.  That’s when we knew something had to be done.

Page County Watch was born.  Page County Watch is a group of about 55 citizens who just can't take it any more.

Views:

If you would like to post your views on this website, and start a debate, just pick an issue.  Do some background research, check your facts, and send your View to research@pagecountywatch.org

We'll post your views as a Reader Comment, and if it gets enough interest and you want to do it, we'll set up a new blog for you.