Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1990 TAG: 9007180145
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: JONESVILLE LENGTH: Short
That may sound not only legal but reasonable. However, for two weeks, Kobak worked without a salary.
She had been fired, rehired and then had her salary disapproved in recent weeks. The votes at those various meetings of the Lee County Board of Supervisors depended on which members showed up.
Supervisor Gerald Williams moved June 8 that Kobak, who had been in the position for one year, be fired. His main complaint, he said, was that she did not keep the board informed of legal matters. The vote ended in a 2-2 tie, with a tie-breaker coming in to vote in favor of the dismissal.
But at a June 29 meeting, attended by a large group of sign-waving Kobak supporters, the board had a change of heart and voted 2-1 to rehire her. Williams was late to the meeting and missed the vote, but vowed to oppose approval of her salary.
The county attorney salary and some other budget matters were delayed until a meeting last Friday, which Williams also missed. Kobak's salary was approved by a 2-1 vote.
Kobak blamed the attempt to fire her on her doing her job, particularly in her not accepting private landfill applications that she called incomplete. "Obviously, I have stepped on some toes," she said.
- Southwest bureau
by CNB