
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170269
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MARGARET CAMLIN NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

LAWYER CHOICE DOWN TO THREE

The Montgomery County School Board interviewed three final candidates to become the district's attorney in a three-hour executive session Tuesday, and voted later that night to begin negotiating with one of them for the job.

Chairman Virginia Kennedy said the board has not decided whether the new attorney would be hired as a salaried staff member or be paid by the hour. The latter has been the arrangement with Jean Arnold, who recently became the Virginia School Board Association's attorney.

Board member Donald Lacy said Tuesday that legal fees cost the school system between $35,000 and $40,000 last year.

Arnold will continue to be the board's attorney of record until the new attorney is hired, Kennedy said. Kennedy said she did not want to say whether the lawyers who were interviewed already are practicing in the New River or Roanoke valleys.

Also at the meeting, the board unanimously voted for an attitude survey to be conducted of all school system employees and board members.

Board member Richard Zody made the motion for the survey. A Virginia Tech professor will be asked to design and oversee the project.

Kennedy said she does not know when the last such survey was conducted. None has been done since Kennedy was appointed to the board about four years ago, she said.

by CNB