Vice Chairman Bruce Tulloch gave Dominion Virginia Power representative John Bailey a piece of his mind at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting.
"What part of what Loudoun County said didn't you understand?" Tulloch said, referring to an unanimous board resolution that asked Dominion to bury the western power line along Route 7.
"This in my eyes is not your best product," he said. "Your best product would have been if you worked with this board to make this happen. Your company drew a line in the sand and decided not to entertain underground. We as a board are prepared for legal action. You've left us little choice."
Tulloch wasn't the only one. One by one, supervisors criticized Dominion's proposed route.
"John, I've known you for a number of years," said Chairman Scott York. "You must come here wearing a jacket on your back that says 'Kick Me.'"
York added that he agreed with Tulloch.
"Keep doing what you're doing with that route and pretty soon it will be cost effective to bury it," York said. "It's nice that we can get together and work but I often feel we spend an awful lot of citizen time, staff time and board time, and we seem to get nowhere."
NOT EVERYONE wants the Board of Supervisors to get involved in Dominion's impending legal battle with Scenic Loudoun Legal Defense, which has filed a motion asking the State Corporation Commission to require Dominion to include the W&OD as a possible route since the company owns an easement along the trail.
Bob McKew, a resident south of Leesburg and a member of the group, asked the board in a letter to stay out of the group's appeal of Dominion's application.
"Considerable legal expenses will be incurred for no good reason," McKew wrote. "Since this motion is asking for a determination of the adequacy of [Dominion's] application under state law, I do not believe there is anything new the county can add to the SCC's decision-making process as to how the law of Virginia should be interpreted."