Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 6, 1991 TAG: 9104060437
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Moody will leave his city job May 13 to become a vice president and real estate administrator for Dominion Trust.
Moody, 41, informed Mayor Noel Taylor and City Council members about his decision Friday. He is one of six city officials appointed and supervised by council.
"I felt like it was an opportunity I couldn't turn down," Moody said. He said he has been happy in his city job and leaves on good terms with council.
Council has been pleased with Moody's performance and was surprised by the resignation, Vice Mayor Howard Musser said.
"He evidently has been offered a good job, and I can understand that. He is at an age where he has to consider that," Musser said.
Musser said the recent controversy about the reassessment of a piece of property on Shenandoah Avenue apparently was not a factor in Moody's resignation.
Moody reduced the assessment on Carl Battin's house and two lots from $43,100 to $26,100 after the city Redevelopment and Housing Authority tried to buy it for industrial development for $23,500.
Moody said the $43,100 figure was a mistake and the property had been erroneously assessed for several years. He denied there was any collusion between his office and the authority, a separate agency.
Musser, chairman of the city's Personnel Committee, said council will advertise nationally for applicants to fill the vacancy. The real estate valuation director oversees a staff of 12 that reassesses 44,000 parcels of real estate annually.
by CNB