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

DATE: SATURDAY, May 29, 1993                   TAG: 9305290199
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

POLICE CHIEF WORKS LAST DAY

But McKinney will be paid through June 30, the end of the fiscal year, Town Manager Gary Elander said.

"We have had some further discussions with the chief," Elander said, but refused to say more because it is a personnel matter.

McKinney was notified by a letter from Mayor Benny Keister Tuesday that he would not be reappointed as chief and that his last day on the job would be Friday.

Keister makes decisions to appointments to various town posts with the Town Council's approval. But Friday, one council member, Elsie Repass, said she was considering resigning over the matter, but didn't want to comment further.

Keister had said earlier this week that an interim chief would be named today, but Elander said that had not occurred.

The police department operations will follow chain of command, Elander said, which falls to Capt. J.C. Vest in the chief's absence.

McKinney, who was hired by Dublin in 1976, said Wednesday that he had planned on retiring later this year and that he was speaking with an attorney about his dismissal.