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"Experts on local government say it’s difficult to compare county administrator salaries across localities as there’s no specific metric used to calculate compensation."
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There is a question of whether the New College Institute board strayed outside the spirit of state open meetings laws following a closed session Monday. The board, after holding a closed session, reconvened in what was supposed to be an open meeting, as required by state law. But a Martinsville Bulletin reporter waiting in the adjoining hallway, roughly 10 feet away from a main door to the meeting room for the state-funded educational entity, never saw it open. By the time someone told the Bulletin reporter that the meeting was back in open and the reporter walked in the meeting room, the board had already taken the legally required open-session vote to certify that what was discussed behind closed doors was legal. When the reporter walked in, board Chairman Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Moneta, was about to adjourn the entire meeting, according to the reporter’s recollection.
Martinsville Bulletin
Robert Gravely, the man who threatened to have Roanoke City Council members shot during Monday’s meeting, was charged with disorderly conduct Tuesday and city leaders are moving to bar him from city hall. It’s the second time Gravely, a former city employee, has threatened council, and he was charged for it the first time 12 years ago. Mayor Sherman Lea and other council members now favor adding a permanent police presence during meetings, perhaps as soon as the next meeting Dec. 17. City Attorney Dan Callaghan said he and his staff are researching what scope and duration of Gravely’s ban from the building is allowed, but the criminal charge against Gravely allows the city to bar him.While the First Amendment protects the right to criticize government, he said,”you don’t have a right to be disorderly.”
The Roanoke Times
The Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors’ move to increase the county administrator’s salary with his contract renewal follows a national trend of rising compensation for chief administrative officers for localities. Nationwide salary surveys conducted annually by the International City/County Management Association exhibit a steady upward trajectory from 2011 to 2017, with the median salary growing by about $34,000 in that time — about a 33.6-percent increase. Experts on local government say it’s difficult to compare county administrator salaries across localities as there’s no specific metric used to calculate compensation, such as population size, land mass or length of tenure.
Register & Bee
After announcing in July “bold new” logos, the College of William and Mary has spent nearly $20,000 to update or replace everything from name tags to stencils. That move comes at a cost: $19,423.30. That’s the amount the athletics department spent in addition to already-budgeted equipment replacements, according to College of William and Mary spokeswoman Suzanne Seurattan. According to information the Virginia Gazette received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the athletics department’s biggest purchase so far: new signage at $6,332.75.
Virginia Gazette
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