Before things got testy at Tuesday night's Board of Supervisors meeting during talk of a new middle school, Supervisor Andy James directed a question to Charles Records in a discussion of the proposed feasibility study of an upper York River crossing.
It's Records, a Gloucester engineer and developer, who will work with three other civil engineers to conduct a feasibility study of building an upper York River crossing at no charge to the county or taxpayers of the state.
James said he knows professional engineers make a lot of money. The feasibility study is going to take a lot of time so "obviously there's got to be something in it for you," James said.
Records responded that he doesn't have a financial interest in the process of the study. He said he simply sees a problem -- lack of a second bridge in a county on a peninsula -- and wants to help make a change in the community to make it a better place.
He sees a problem and wonders how to solve the problem, Records said. He also sees the potential for a public-private partnership to build the bridge, he said.
