Sometime since Thursday of last week, vandals got on to the property at Warfield Point Park and caused an estimated $30,000 in damage to the electrical system.
“It looks like a clean cut,” Donald Davis, building and grounds director at Warfield Point Park, said. “They looked to be stealing copper.”
Davis told the Washington County Board of Supervisors at their regular Tuesday meeting the damage occurred near the bathrooms.
Thieves destroyed power boxes and cut electrical wires.
The park is just now recovering from the record flood event and was in the process of returning to operations.
Davis said the damage would take two or more weeks to repair.
Since the park wasn’t open, there wasn’t 24-hour occupancy.
In other board news:
- Will Coppage, Executive Director of the Washington County Economic Alliance told the board the new business NuFarm has so far hired 21 residents of Washington County. The business is still in the construction phase. The product creation lines are coming on-line faster than the work for the façade of the building. They are planning a ribbon cutting for later this year;
- County Engineer Marcus Hooker Jr. reported two bids for completion on paving work on Producer’s Rice Road. The bid of $701,082 from Gary Vaughn construction was the lowest and best bid and was about $250,000 under the estimated cost prior to bidding;
- Washington County Tax Collector Patricia Lee asked for $10,614 for new furniture at the service desk of the tax collector’s office. She also reported July revenue of about $378,527; and
- David Burford, emergency management director, asked to purchase a replacement E-911 recording system. The previous system was damaged when a drain for the air conditioning system failed. The office is currently using a system from Replay. The company also bid for the replacement system and will credit the cost of the temporary system toward the purchase of the system. The rental of the system was about $3,000 and the replacement system before the credit for rental is about $15,000.
