Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 23, 1990 TAG: 9005230471
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MARK LAYMAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The 7,000-square-foot building, which will include four classrooms, offices, a locker room and an emergency services library, will cost an estimated $400,000.
Most of the money will come from a surcharge on fire insurance premiums that the state began collecting in 1985. Three-fourths of the surcharge is returned to localities for fire training programs and equipment; Roanoke County gets about $70,000 a year.
The county has used that money over the past five years to help pay for a burn building, a hazardous-materials training area and a confined-space rescue simulator at the Kessler Mill Road site.
The state plans to lease offices in the classroom building from the county for about $20,000 a year.
The training center is used by all the surrounding localities.
Also Tuesday, the supervisors gave preliminary approval to a 5 percent pay raise for themselves, effective July 1. That's the maximum raise allowed by law.
The supervisors' pay will increase $440, from $8,805 a year to $9,245.
The chairman will continue to receive an additional $1,800 a year. The vice chairman will receive an additional $1,200.
County employees will get average pay raises of 5.2 percent in 1990-1991.
The supervisors also scheduled a special meeting for next Tuesday at 5 p.m. to discuss changes in the plan to consolidate Roanoke and Roanoke County.
Negotiators from Roanoke and Roanoke County are meeting with representatives from Salem on Friday. They will try to reach an agreement on a financial settlement that would give most residents of the Catawba Magisterial District the chance to become part of Salem if the consolidation referendum passes.
by CNB