UPDATE 7/29/2020: The Greene County Board of Supervisors is calling for the unanimous consent of Orange and Madison counties to withdraw Greene County from the Rapidan Service Authority.

The board met on Wednesday, at which time, a resolution was created. The resolution is pursuant to Virginia Code §15.2-5112.

Orange and Madison counties are reviewing the resolution and have not made comments on it yet.

The next Greene County Board of Supervisors meeting is Aug. 4 and the next RSA meeting is Aug. 20.

GREENE COUNTY, Va (CBS19 NEWS) -- The Greene County Board of Supervisors held an emergency virtual meeting on Tuesday night. It comes after the Rapidan Service Authority (RSA) voted to end the original funding plan for a major water supply project in Greene County.

This plan began years ago, and it includes the White Run Reservoir Project.

But at a meeting last Thursday, the RSA Board voted to assume leadership of the project, and stop billing and collecting facility fees from Greene residents. Those fees were collected by the RSA and funded infrastructure around the county.

RSA doesn't like the fees, and many Greene residents don't like them, either.

The Greene County representatives on the RSA Board were shocked; they had no idea the vote was even taking place, since it wasn’t explicitly stated on the public meeting agenda.

“The motion was being so hastily acted upon, that Mr. [Bill] Martin had to interrupt the RSA Board Chairman’s call for the vote in order to have the opportunity to comment on the motion at all,” Mark Taylor, the Greene County administrator, said. 

A press release from Greene County states the RSA was aware of the more than $11 million already invested in the project, the progress already made, and that the county voted last Tuesday to increase the facility fee for users over the next four years to break ground on water improvements beginning in 2021.

The RSA says it doesn’t have an obligation to maintain the plan that was being worked on for the past several years, but it hasn’t said what it intends to do, instead.

“Absolutely no plan has been discussed with at least the full RSA Board and certainly not with the Greene County members who are most implicated, or their citizens,” Bill Martin, the Chairman for the Greene County Board of Supervisors, said.

After coming out of a closed-door virtual meeting Tuesday night, the Greene County Board of Supervisors did not disclose what the next steps are going to be.

For more information on the White Run Reservoir project, click here.