Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 28, 1994 TAG: 9404280194
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-9 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
After a closed-door session Monday, the Board of Supervisors asked the state Transportation Department for funds should HP Hydraulics Inc. buy nearly four acres in the park near the Roanoke County line.
The money - an estimated $175,000 - would build a road from U.S. 460/U.S. 11 to the property, but would only become available once the county has a contract with the company, said Dan Brugh, the Transportation Department's resident engineer for the county.
HP Hydraulics now has 60 days to take the county up on the offer by exercising its option to buy the $26,000 parcel, according to Don Moore, Montgomery's economic development director.
The company would invest $2.5 million and expects to employ 35 people. The new plant is expected to open by Aug. 1, according to the Board of Supervisors.
Moore declined to discuss where the company, which builds and repairs hydraulic components, is from. But a check with the State Corporation Commission showed that the registered agent for the firm is Thomas J. Hall, a Roanoke lawyer.
Under the second of two resolutions the board passed Monday, South Star Corp., a Salem-based electrical-assembly company, will be given the first crack at the remaining parcel in the small industrial park.
Occupants of the park include a sewage treatment plant, AAA Vending and two hauling companies - S.R. Goff Hauling and Houston Motor Express.
In other business Monday, the Board of Supervisors:
Agreed to back the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library Board's effort to double the amount of money it could have to automate the circulation systems in its three libraries.
The supervisors last year agreed that $150,000 of the $1.9 million library bond issue will go to computerize the library's antiquated card catalog and circulation system. Other government and community organizations had pledged an additional $70,000 for the project.
The Library Board last week agreed to pursue a $220,000 federal grant, that, if received, would mean $444,000 would be available for automation.
That money would also give the Christiansburg and Floyd libraries computer terminals and access to the Internet, which the Blacksburg branch already enjoys through the Electronic Village pilot project.
Authorized a $39,964 base contract with the Anderson & Associates engineering firm to work on the Huckleberry Trail - the Christiansburg to Blacksburg bikeway and footpath that follows a former railroad right of way. Most of the cost will be reimbursed through a federal transportation grant administered by the state.
by CNB