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

DATE: THURSDAY, January 13, 1994                   TAG: 9401140361
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

WEATHER DELAYS REPORT ON SCHOOLS' FUTURE

A 41-member Pulaski County task force is nearly ready to make recommendations on future planning for school funding, buildings and other key factors in education into the next century.

But it will not have them ready by mid-January, the original goal when the task force was appointed last year.

Some of the task force's subcommittees could not get together as planned in recent weeks because of heavy snows, so they were not ready to give their reports at the task force session Tuesday night at Pulaski County High School.

Tony Oliveria, facilitator for the task force, will meet with the heads of subcommittees Jan. 20. The next full task force session is scheduled for Jan. 26, but even then it is not certain that its report will be ready. ``It depends on how finalized these committees feel they are,'' Oliveria said.

He said the task force, named by a joint commission of Board of Supervisors and School Board members, had massive amounts of material to digest. ``It's sort of frustrating and, as we said earlier, that's to be expected,'' he said.

He said the recommendations on the use of technology in the county's future education planning may provide an anchor of sorts for the other recommendations, such as what kind of school buildings are needed and how much they will cost. The report will have to be made soon if its recommendations are to be considered in planning the 1994-95 school budget.

by CNB