Supervisors weigh supplemental funding, container count for volunteer fire training facility

Fluvanna County supervisors debated approving a supplemental appropriation for a proposed volunteer fire and technical-rescue training facility and whether the build should use four or five stacked container modules. The board asked staff and the contractor to return with updated cost estimates and options at the next meeting rather than take a final vote tonight.

The question before the board was whether to keep the original, five-container design that supports high-angle and tower rescue training or to downgrade to four containers to reduce cost. Supervisor Fairchild said he did not want to alter the five-container design because “that gives you the options for tech rescue training, which we're gonna have to do more and more” and noted volunteer retention and training convenience as reasons to support a more complete…