Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 3, 1995 TAG: 9508040083
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The number is 342-8634.
Vinton Town Council, during its Tuesday meeting, approved an expenditure of $636 to install the phone at the museum and pay the bill for the next 12 months.
And, Barbara Dillon, president of the Vinton Historical Society, operator of the museum, is heartened that town officials approved the phone installation and are interested to doing other things to make the museum more attractive to the townspeople.
"They are being very cooperative," Dillon said after council's meeting Tuesday.
Town Manager Clay Goodman told council members that the annual charge for the phone service will be about $432. Installation was $164, and the phone costs $40.
Goodman also told council that town workers also are mowing the museum's lawn. The town owns the property at 210 Jackson St. but allows the historical society to operate the museum.
The next assistance the town may give the museum, Goodman said, is to help with an inventory of its artifacts and and draw up a plan to increase the display.
Dillon said the inventory assistance will be a good service, and she hopes an agreement with the town can be worked out.
In other action:
Council approved two donations of $100 each to the Vinton Belles All-Star Softball Team and Michelle Cook, a Soap Box Derby contestant.
The Belles, a team of girls ages 13-15, will represent Vinton and Virginia in the 1995 Dixie Softball World Series later this month in Alexander City, Ala.
Cook will represent Virginia in the International Soap Box Derby Race in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday.
Council awarded a one-year contract for $20,874 to the R & J Janitorial & Maintenance Supply Services of Salem to clean the municipal building.
Goodman said the town should save about $4,000 by using the outside janitorial service. A custodian on the town's payroll has been doing the cleaning and it was costing nearly $25,000 a year, he said.
The custodian's position has been vacant since April, he said.
Council appointed Mary Beth Layman to represent the town on the Disability Services Board of the Fifth Planning District Commission.
Layman, the town's coordinator of special programs, will complete the remaining year-and-a-half of the term of David Holladay, who resigned.
by CNB