ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, April 18, 1996 TAG: 9604180031
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-12 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
A big day is in store for members of Vinton Town Council and the town's administrative officials on the day of council's next meeting, May 7.
That will be the day municipal elections are held throughout Virginia, including Vinton.
It also will be the annual Student Government Day.
The election will be no worry for three council members whose terms expire this year. Mayor Charles Hill and Councilmen Joseph Bush and C. Buford Barton are seeking re-election without opposition.
In the Student Government Day program, government students from William Byrd High School will spend the day with municipal officials to get a firsthand view of their jobs.
That night they will attend council's regular meeting to get a closer look at that phase of the town's government.
Council members were notified of the student day at their meeting this week by Town Manager Clay Goodman.
In another action this week, council approved the $10.2 million 1996-97 fiscal budget of the Roanoke Valley Resource Authority.
In approving the authority's budget, council members noted that in the town's 1996-97 budget now being formulated, $155,000 has tentatively been set aside to cover the town's expected tipping fees for the authority to process refuse from the town.
That would be approximately $15,000 higher than the amount for that purpose in the town's current budget.
Goodman said the higher line item is necessary because an increasing amount of refuse is being collected in the town. He could not pinpoint a reason for the increase.
The authority's rate for municipal waste is $50 a ton, but its charter members - Vinton, Roanoke and Roanoke County - have a $5 per ton reduction in the current fiscal year and are expected to have the same reduction in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The authority processes refuse for member governments in the Roanoke Valley and operates the Tinker Creek Transfer Station and the regional sanitary landfill off Bradshaw Road in Roanoke County.
This is the third year the authority has been in operation.
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