Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 25, 1992 TAG: 9203250203
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
By a 4-3 vote, the board Monday night decided to ask for another round of bids. Supervisors who voted against the delay argued that it will cost the county money because the low bidder will have a chance to increase its bid.
Action Contracting Co. of Roanoke submitted the low bid of $57,500. The bid was particularly attractive because the company said it would not take any debris from the demolition to the county landfill.
It proposed salvaging building materials, using some for construction fill and burning what could not be salvaged. That would save the county $26 a ton at the landfill, or roughly $40,000.
But some supervisors were concerned that the proposed contract did not contain a guarantee that the debris to be used for fill would be disposed of legally. That's because some construction debris cannot be used for fill material.
Supervisor Larry Linkous worried that the county might face a liability if the company did not dispose of the debris properly.
Although invitations for bids were advertised in local newspapers, Supervisors Joe Stewart and Nick Rush asked County Administrator Betty Thomas why more local companies had not bid on the demolition work. Stewart said several people interested in the job had called him.
Board Chairman Ira Long joined Linkous, Stewart and Rush in voting to ask for more bids for the work.
The board did, however, approve a contract for $12,060 for removal of asbestos from most of the Angles buildings. Asbestos will not be removed from the roof of a garage and apartment building because the county may use that building.
Also Monday, the supervisors tabled for a second time a request by the School Board to use $400,000 left over from the Falling Branch school bond issue for the repair of leaking school roofs in the county.
Several board members said they needed more information about which school roofs are leaking, which are the worst and what it will cost to fix them. Jablonski said the money left from the bond issue couldn't possibly take care of all the roofs with problems.
Board members also want the school system to provide more information about how much of the money raised from the Falling Branch bonds was spent on the school. Long said he understood there was more money left over from the bond sale than the $400,000 the school administration has indicated.
But figures obtained from School Superintendent Harold Dodge indicate that is not the case.
The 1991 bond issue for the school was $3.25 million and another $2.5 million was obtained from the state Literary Fund, for a total of $5.75 million.
As of March 19, $3.47 million of that had been spent on the school. Dodge estimated another $1.9 million should be spent before the project is completed.
That would leave an unspent balance of roughly $380,000.
Also, the supervisors:
Heard objections from several residents about the Alleghany District Volunteer Rescue Squad's plans to locate a mobile home on land it owns next to its squad building in Shawsville. The supervisors and Planning Commission held a public hearing on the squad's request to rezone the land to residential, to make way for the trailer.
"There's no question of what a trailer is going to reduce the value of properties in that whole area of private homes," Shawsville resident and former Supervisor George Gray said.
Scheduled public hearings for April 27 on a request for a special-use permit for Premier Bank for a communications tower on Brush Mountain 1.8 mile west of Pandapas Pond, and on an amendment to the county's comprehensive plan, taking into account a new Christiansburg-to-Shawsville water line.
Approved lending $235,438, which will come from a general fund surplus, to the county's landfill enterprise fund for a dump truck, landfill liner and a landfill leachate collection system. The leachate system, which will cost $177,400, will pipe the fluids draining from the landfill to the Christiansburg sewage treatment plant.
by CNB