Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 6, 1990 TAG: 9004061129
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: JOEL TURNER MUNICIPAL WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Musser will ask City Council on Monday night to consider the parking issue during its upcoming budget study.
The city provides free parking to some public works employees and others who work for municipal departments located outside downtown. The city also provides free parking for top management officials in downtown, but most city employees in the municipal complex have to make their own arrangements for parking and pay for it.
Musser said fairness dictates that the city provide the same parking benefits for downtown workers as those who work elsewhere.
He said that approximately 900 employees work in the downtown area. He said it would cost about $163,000 a year to provide them parking.
Also Monday night, council will hold a public hearing to hear citizens' comments on the nine applicants for three School Boards. Under the procedure that council uses for filling School Board seats, a hearing is held to provide an opportunity for city residents to lobby for candidates or express their views on them.
The terms of board members William White and Sallye Coleman will end June 30. Guy Byrd Jr. also resigned from the board last week because he has taken a job in Charleston, W.Va.
Coleman has applied for a new three-year term, but White isn't seeking reappointment because he is a candidate for council in the May 1 election.
In addition to Coleman, the applicants are: Charles Day, a former principal, teacher and coach in the city school system now in real estate sales; Emanuel Edwards, a lawyer: and John Geary, a retired postal worker who now works in the Lewis-Gale Clinic's security department.
Also, David Lisk, a former School Board member and former city councilman; Delvis "Mac" McCadden, a former teacher who is now district sales manager for USAir; Lewis Peery, a retired Postal Service worker; Finn Pincus, director of the Electronic Computer Programming Institute; and Denise Reedy, a housewife and PTA leader.
Councilman David Bowers and Musser opposed council's decision earlier this week to choose a successor for Byrd from among the pool of applicants for the two other seats. They wanted the city to invite applications for the position, but other council members said there was no need to seek more applications.
These items are also on council's agenda:
City Manager Robert Herbert's recommendation that council endorse an application for $8,000 in state emergency home repair funds that will be matched by local money to pay for emergency repairs to houses occupied by low-income families.
Herbert's recommendation that another $50,000 be appropriated to continue the appraisal and acquisition of land that will be needed for the Roanoke River flood-reduction project.
A public hearing on the rezoning of land off Hersberger Road near Bean Street to permit the construction of an FM radio station, a family restaurant, family arcade and a miniature golf course.
by CNB