County to switch to universal trash tax in 1998
Buchanan County Supervisors approve a January 1998 start for mandatory trash collection funded by a $1.50 utility tax. The former $7 per month per household and $4 per cubic yard commercial charges are eliminated to ensure service for all residents, including areas cut from roads years ago. Local residents question the tax and service reach, while officials say the plan reduces illegal dumping and keeps the county clean.
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Grundy
Buchanan County Board of Supervisors
Brady Harris
Coun
Harris
Fami
Roger Rife
Rife
Althou
Lawrence Jackson
Vansant
Buchanan County
Virginia faces at least 30 million annual cost for child health plan
Virginia must provide about 30 million dollars yearly to leverage the federal plan for 72 000 uninsured children. The nonprofit program would cover kids earning up to twice the federal poverty level with an estimated 60 million in state funds, plus a one to two federal match.
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Richmond
Virginia
Patrick W. Finnerty
Joint Commission On Health Care
Finnerty
Joseph V. Gartlan Jr
Cfairfax
Senate Finance Committee
Gartlan
Jill A. Hanken
Virginia Poverty Law Center
Sai
Claude Cocus
Saffel
Scott and
Cocus
Mercer County
Gary to Receive 1.6 Million Grant for Water Upgrade
Gary will receive a 1.6 million dollar infusion for a citywide water system upgrade. The Rural Development Agency awarded 976 thousand in a grant and 680 thousand as a loan to renovate the treatment plant storage tanks and pump stations and to replace distribution lines and install 43 fire hydrants. The first phase focuses on upgrading the plant tanks and lines with a second phase extending water service toward Pageton and a third toward Skygusty Anawalt and Jenkin Jones.
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Gary
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Rural Development Agency
Mary Annag
Bobby Lewis
McDowell County Commission
Welch
No. 5
Pageton
Skygusty
Anawalt
Jenkin Jones
Excess sludge disposal costs haunt Princeton board
Princeton Sanitary Board grapples with a 1500 dollar weekly disposal bill despite a 350000 dollar press and a process yielding land usable, high quality sludge. Regulators and public perception complicate land application, leaving burning or landfilling costly or impractical.
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Sanitary Board
Princeton
Princeton Sanitary Board
Mike Saffel
West Virginia
Modena outlines real crisis behind summit on at risk youth
Bluefield speaker Al Modena described the President's Summit for America's Future as addressing a genuine national crisis. He cited 10 to 12 million at risk youths and WV and VA needs, aiming to reach 25,000 children by 2000 and urging volunteers to work with existing programs rather than forming new groups.
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Bluefield
America
al Modena
United States
Modena
West Virginia
Virginia
Concord College
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