ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, November 7, 1996 TAG: 9611070027
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: COMPILED BY KENNETH SINGLETARY.
* The Christiansburg Town Council amended its bikeway plan Tuesday to show a connection from the Marketplace shopping center to Montgomery County's recreation area. The route will cross the planned U.S. 460 bypass connector, also known as Alternative 3A, with a bridge.
Christiansburg will pay for 2 percent of the cost of the bridge if it is funded under the Virginia Department of Transportation's thoroughfare program. The town will pay nothing if VDOT funds it with interstate highway system money.
* Council also subdivided land next to Northgate Shopping Center on North Franklin Street, owned by Roger Woody, for commercial development.
* And Town Manager Lance Terpenny gave council members the town's annual report. It is filled with minutia about events in the town during the fiscal year ending June 30, including: the tons of asphalt put onto town streets (12,380); new water service installed (154 residential, eight commercial); water consumption (more than 662 million gallons); arrests by town police (840); complaints and calls investigated by town police (19,612); number of miles police patrolled (349,111); fines collected by police ($70,700); total real estate and property tax levied (more than $1.3 million); largest single source of revenue (prepared meals tax: almost $1.8 million, which is about 16 percent of current revenue); current revenue (more than $11 million); single biggest expense (street maintenance: more than $1.6 million, almost 16 percent of total expenses); total expenses (more than $10. 6 million).
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