Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 1, 1993 TAG: 9312010273
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DAVID M. POOLE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
It's something that is done each year, then promptly forgotten.
"We've already spent more time on this than our [local legislative] delegation will," Vinton Supervisor Harry Nickens said after 20 minutes of discussion and debate.
"I agree," Cave Spring Supervisor Fuzzy Minnix said. "It probably will have no effect at all."
Topping the list was a whopper: $2.4 million in state funds for Explore Park during the 1994-96 biennium.
The money would cover operating expenses of the living-history state park, which is scheduled to open to the public in May.
House Majority Leader Richard Cranwell - the dean of the Roanoke Valley delegation - has all but said that Explore cannot count on funding from the General Assembly session, which convenes in January.
Roanoke County also asked the legislature to:
Waive the law requiring localities to recycle at least 25 percent of their solid waste by 1995. The supervisors say the county cannot afford to expand current curbside recycling efforts unless the state can guarantee "market prices" for recyclable materials.
Continue the moratorium on city-initiated annexation.
Restore $500,000 in state funds that Roanoke County has lost each year since it created a Police Department to handle law enforcement.
Give the county flexibility to start the school year before Labor Day.
On Jan. 3, the Board of Supervisors will discuss its requests with the county's six-member legislative delegation.
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