ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, June 6, 1996 TAG: 9606060046
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
Pulaski Town Council will lend up to $54,000 to the owners of a restaurant enterprise in the downtown area where some restaurants have closed or cut back hours in recent years.
The money, from the town's urban development action grant money, will go to Ernest and Teresa Lee for work at the All Country Restaurant at 220 N. Washington St. Approval of the loan followed a closed session by council Tuesday.
Earlier in the meeting, council approved its proposed $5.7 million budget for the coming fiscal year.
Andy McCready, a resident, complained the budget provided no funding for improvements for an area annexed by the town in 1987. The annexation agreement at that time scheduled water and sewer improvements by now, he said, "and all I'm asking you to do is keep to the annexation agreement."
He said the area is likely to experience increased growth when the New River Trail is extended from the edge of town to Pulaski's renovated depot building. Mayor Andy Graham said that extension could happen by the end of the year.
Graham also noted some free advertising that the town is getting on the mail cover of the current issue of the Smithsonian magazine. Subscribers were urged to celebrate Pulaski's Depot Days Festival by visiting the Smithsonian Artrain which will be a part of it. The Artrain and its exhibits are sponsored by Chrysler Corp.
The Depot Days Festival is June 20-23.
Council voted to close the undeveloped alley rights of ways listed for consideration at Tuesday's meeting.
Councilwoman Bettye Steger said she has gotten complaints about roaming cats becoming a nuisance, and suggested looking into cat ordinances adopted in recent years in Giles County and Wytheville. "So many of our citizens are very upset at cats that come onto their property," she said.
Wytheville requires that cat owners buy licenses for their pets.
The town will raise its fees for participation in the fall for youth recreation programs to $15 per person to be in line with other recreation fees in Pulaski County, but no family will be charged more than $45 regardless of the number of participants it has. Councilman Roy D'Ardenne noted that scholarships are available in cases of financial hardships.
Before the meeting, three new council members took their oaths of office. Jim Neblett, Polly Mitchell and Charles Stewart will join the governing body after this month.
Stewart also was named to succeed D'Ardenne on a committee with representatives from the town of Dublin and Pulaski County to study establishing an electronic village here. D'Ardenne, who leaves council at the end of the month along with Alma Holston and E.G. "Junior" Black, had been serving on the committee with Councilman John Johnston.
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