PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


"PUBLIC CONVERSATION" ON FLUVANNA COUNTY COURTHOUSE
REFERENDUM TO BE HELD DEC. 19 AT CARYSBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL

	The first of four "Public Conversations" about Fluvanna
County's upcoming referendum on relocating its courthouse will be
held from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, at Carysbrook Middle
School auditorium. 

	The informational discussions on a decision that will
powerfully affect Fluvanna County's future are being organized by
the University of Virginia's Institute for Environmental
Negotiation, which has a long record of helping communities consider
important choices. 

	The public meetings, led by neutral facilitators, will
provide a comfortable setting for residents to talk and listen about
the courthouse issue and to hear important factual information that
will help them decide how to vote in the Feb. 4 referendum.

	The referendum will ask Fluvanna residents whether a new
county courthouse should be built on a 900-acre site on Rt. 53,
outside the Palmyra town center, and whether the Board of
Supervisors should be permitted to spend $5.2 million for the
project.  The existing historic pre Civil War courthouse in Palmyra
no longer meets state standards and would require extensive changes
if a new courthouse is not built.  The decision has major land-use
implications for the county. 

	Future public conversations will be held on the issue in
January.  For additional information please contact Frank Dukes or
Jennifer Spofford at the U.Va. Institute for Environmental
Negotiation at (804) 924-1970.

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December 13, 1996

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:      Dec. 20, 1996