ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, March 30, 1997 TAG: 9704010094
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Notes from the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, February 1997
School Board
Plus - No executive sessions in February. The School board passed a resolution to cooperate with and support the Board of Supervisors in their plans for financing the new schools.
More in-service training will be provided for teachers to help them better use state-required tests.
Minus - No plans were made to hire more than the present one nurse per 1,000 students.
Two additional achievement tests costing $54,000 will be required by the state to be given in Montgomery County.
Monitoring - The process involved in the superintendent's search, at a cost of $30,000.
Board of Supervisors
Plus - The Board of Supervisors indicated in its evaluation of the proposed Riner development project to allow townhouses on Five Points Road that it has a sensitive ear toward those citizens who are focused on protecting some of our natural land resources.
Minus - Concerns that the board's decisions about land use appear to lack a reliable baseline for compliance with the Comprehensive Plan.
Monitoring - Many personnel changes in county goverment, including a new county administrator. It is reasonable to expect many shifts in the procedures. Citizens will also want to minitor the evaluation process of the new proposed county budget. Citizen participation in the budget process will be scheduled over the next several weeks, so this is the time to come, listen, and tell the supervisors what you feel is important in order to have a good quality of life in your community.
The Community Observer Corps is a coalition of community organizations that monitors lcoal government boards in Montgomery Count7.
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