Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, December 17, 1994 TAG: 9412190042
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
The state has approved a 3 percent increase for retirees in towns like Dublin that are members of the Virginia Retirement System. Towns are allowed to make the adjustment retroactive to Oct. 1, if they wish.
Dublin has nine retired employees drawing from the system. The town's share of what they draw totals more than $22,000 a year. The increase would require Dublin to pay another $2,500 annually into the system.
But council decided Thursday night to postpone consideration of the increase until it knows what the General Assembly is going to do about the business and professional license tax, which now provides more than 8.6 percent of the town's revenue. It provides considerably more to some other Virginia municipalities.
The governing body will reconsider the matter early next year, when it knows better where it stands on local revenue. Several more town employees will probably be retiring in the next three to four years, Town Manager Gary Elander said, and would be added to the nine now drawing retirement.
In other business, Dublin is working toward a subdivision plan for its industrial park so it can show prospects precisely what properties are available.
Dublin Town Council authorized Elander to determine the cost of preparing such a plan, which would show what road systems are available to serve various parcels of land.
On Monday, Council will hold a joint public hearing with the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors on transferring the industrial park property, formerly the Burlington Mills plant, to the town from the county. The town would also get some nonresidential property between the park and present corporate limits. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in Pulaski's county Administrative Building.
Council also approved a $12,900 contract with Landmark Builders to construct an addition to Dublin's fire house.
``That was less than half the price of what we figured before,'' Fire Chief Robbie Cecil told council. ``We went back and refigured some things, and got some things donated.''
Fire Department members will also do some of the work themselves, he said. ``The quality of the building is going to be exactly like what we talked about before.''
The addition will have an emergency generator and could house community residents in an emergency, such as last winter's ice storms which knocked out power to many homes.
by CNB