Government

    Bedford County won’t be joining a regional library system.
    The Bedford County Board of Supervisors agenda included an action item entitled “Consideration of a resolution endorsing Region 2000’s Regional Library Operations May 2014 Report,” and this item resulted in major discussion and two votes before a decision was made.

    Andy Dooley, chairman of the Bedford Moose Lodge’s fireworks committee, would like some help with next year’s Fourth of July fireworks display. The Moose Lodge has sponsored the last two fireworks displays. Dooley appeared before the Board of Supervisors Monday night.
    Dooley said the Lodge had a meeting after this summer’s fireworks to decide if they were going to continue the displays.
    “We had an overwhelming ‘yes, we’d like to do it',” he said.

    Bedford Deputy County Administrator Frank Rogers is moving next door.

    He takes the helm as Campbell County’s county administrator on Oct. 1. This completes exactly nine years of service with Bedford County. He came here as assistant county administrator in September, 2005. During the year between former county administrator Kathleen Guzi’s departure in 2012 and current county administrator Mark Reeter’s arrival a year later, Rogers served as interim county administrator.

    The Bedford County Board of Supervisors won’t be holding a public hearing on raising supervisors’ pay at its Sept. 8 meeting. In fact, supervisor pay raises are off the table for the remainder of this year.
    At the end of their last meeting, on Aug. 11, the supervisors reached a consensus during the Board Comments section of the meeting to hold a public hearing on raising supervisors’ pay by $200 a month. District 6 Supervisor Annie Pollard made the suggestion during the Comments period.