Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 25, 1993 TAG: 9305250578
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: BY PAUL DELLINGER NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
County Administrator Joseph Morgan had recommended adding $12,500 for human services, continuing the department's present funding level for one more quarter.
But the supervisors rejected that boost and stuck with the budgeted $197,000 for next year. This year's level was $246,000.
"You're not doing it for anyone else. Why do we do it for them?" said Supervisor Bruce Fariss. Then he made a motion to adopt the budget with Morgan's recommended changes - and voted against his own motion.
Farris was joined by Ira "Pete" Crawford and board Chairman Jerry White in voting against the change. Joseph Sheffey voted for it. The remaining supervisor, Mason Vaughan, was not at the meeting.
Fariss then moved to pass the $15.8 million budget - down from the current $19.7 million - with no changes. It passed 4-0.
Morgan's other recommendations were $400 for mailing costs to alert property owners to multiflora rose control measures, because the state will provide $5,000 for herbicide, and some additional funds for the commonwealth's attorney and commissioner of revenue offices approved by the state.
Fariss also raised questions about the county's continuing its participation in a joint Recreation Commission with the towns of Pulaski and Dublin.
"The Recreation Commission is being railroaded down the tubes by some petty people," he said, mainly members of Dublin's recreation department.
Fariss said they increased the cost to people taking part in certain programs to $15 when the commission had agreed to hold the line at $10, and decided not to support a spring soccer program even though it had 200 participants.
The board voted 4-0 to seek a meeting with the commission, tentatively set for June 7 at 7 p.m.
"My inclination is to say . . . `We will run our own program'; and they can do what they want to," Fariss said. "This started in good faith. It had a lot of potential."
The supervisors also held their annual public hearing on secondary roads priorities in the county's six-year plan. Most of the speakers expressed frustration for lack of work on various roads, but Resident Transportation Engineer J.D. Brugh said the more urban areas now control the General Assembly, which allocates state funds.
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