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

DATE: TUESDAY, April 16, 1991                   TAG: 9104160148
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-7   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: M.J. DOUGHERTY/ CORRESPONDENT
DATELINE: FLOYD                                LENGTH: Medium

ROAD REPAIRS SOUGHT IN FLOYD

Citizens requesting road repairs had their chance Monday as the Floyd County Board of Supervisors held its annual public hearing on the six-year secondary road plan.

Of the 11 persons attending, five spoke. Two sought to have their roads included in the state system and three asked for repairs.

Chris Boehling, who lives in Patrick County but has access from former Virginia 615 in Floyd County, asked that the 2,000 feet from where the road now ends to the county line be taken back into the state road network.

The road was discontinued in 1957, but now five families live along it, he said.

Jim Gates, a resident engineer with the state Department of Transportation, said he didn't think the state still owned the road, but he would investigate.

Janet Rorrer asked that Skyline Drive, just east of the Floyd town limits, be made a state road.

Repair requests were for Virginia 767, from Virginia 768 northward, near Greasy Creek; Virginia 655, from Virginia 787 to Virginia 754, near the Pulaski County and Carroll county lines; and Virginia 738, from Virginia 750 to Virginia 618, near Virginia 8 at the Montgomery County line.

The proposed construction budget for next year is $759,751, about $350,000 less than called for in the six-year plan adopted in 1989. It includes $75,000 for countywide projects, $182,000 to finish existing projects, and $502,000 to complete three new projects and start a fourth.

The supervisors took no action on the road budget.

In other business, the board:

Voted to replace the telephone system in the county courthouse. The county will switch to a CENTREX system through Citizens Telephone Cooperative of Floyd. The cooperative will give the county more than $10,000 in credit to switch - about $8,000 worth of equipment and $2,000 to pay off cooperative subsidiary Citizens Communications for the existing phone system. The operational cost of the new system is about $1,504 per month, $373 less than the county is spending.

Authorized County Administrator Randy Arno to enter a $3,000 contract with Pat Therrien, operator of the Floyd County Recycling Center, to develop a solid-waste management plan. The plan must be submitted to the state by July 1.

Appropriated $53,982 in additional state and federal money to the social services department.

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