Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 22, 1994 TAG: 9410240032
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
The proposed 15-by-20-foot addition to the back of the fire house could serve as an emergency shelter. It is a facility that town officials wish they had had last winter during ice storms that forced people out of powerless homes.
The addition was planned after the telephone company donated the generator. ``They got a bigger one and we put in a request,'' Fire Chief Robbie Cecil explained.
Councilman Benny Skeens told council Thursday night that a committee would go over plans for the addition soon and report back to the governing body. Because the telephone company is furnishing the generator, he said, the least the town can do is house it properly.
The addition will be made of brick and block, matching the rest of the building.
Cecil said plans and specifications for it are nearly complete, and contract bids will be sought after the committee goes over them. Parts of the job can be done by volunteer labor, he said. ``We'll do all we can to save as much money as we can on it,'' he said.
Town Manager Gary Elander reported that long-planned corrective sewer work on about 7,500 feet of pipeline will get under way soon to get rid of corrosion in those lines.
The lines come out of Pulaski and the town of Pulaski and the town of Pulaski will handle the contract, he said. Most of the work will be done by inserting slightly smaller pipe into existing lines and will not interrupt sewer service.
But the work will require some temporary road detours once it starts, Elander said. Motorists will have to detour around part of Peppers Ferry Road to Tate for six to seven days, and from a section of Main across Jordan and down Locust for three to four days.
In other business, Councilman David Stanley asked that council's Public Works Committee develop priorities or ``a wish list'' on curb, guttering and sidewalk construction in the town. He said the Finance and Administration Committee would then allocate money, as it becomes available, on projects in the order listed.
``We don't know if we'll have any money or, if so, how much we'll have,'' he said. ``I don't think we'll be doing anything before this time next year, or maybe a little sooner.''
Council's public session lasted only about 15 minutes Thursday night. Council then went into closed session for about an hour and 15 minutes to discuss acquisition and disposition of public property, prospective industry and legal matters, but took no action on any of them when it emerged into open session again.
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