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Halifax County Supervisors on a 5-0 vote Monday night approved a $3,300
— 3.5 percent — raise for County Administrator Bryan Foster. Two
Supervisors, Chairman William Fitzgerald and ED #2 Tom West, were
absent from the meeting and ED#6 Supervisor Wayne Connor had to leave
prior to the vote. The increase becomes effective on December 1, 2007
and raises Foster's annual salary to $96,000. The vote came after the
Board reviewed Foster's performance for the year during a closed
session.
Earlier in the Monday night meeting, Gary Arrington of Hunters for the
Hungry Monday evening told County Supervisors and Council members from
South Boston and Halifax that an overabundance of deer can mean food
for those less fortunate and also that hunting is the biggest
management program there is for lowering the deer population.
Arrington, who started the program of raising money to process deer
meat, said his group has processed over three million pounds of meat
which amounts to some 12 million meals. And most of it goes to the
elderly and children who are most eligible for the help.
Whereas beef now sells for $3.90 to $4.00 per pound, Arrington said
deer meat can be processed for 83 cents per pound. For every $2
invested, he explained, ten meals can be produced. "We raise the funds
to process," he said noting that there are two processing locations in
Halifax County, one in Virgilina, the other in Nathalie.
And there is a trailer at Jerry Epps Landscaping Service on Route 501
just past the railroad tracks in Halifax where hunters can leave their
kill.
"We hate to think of one out of every eight people being hungry," he
said, explaining that his food distribution goes to God's Storehouse
and to the Good Samaritan.
In other business before the joint governing bodies, both County
Supervisors and South Boston Town Council approved the first amendment
to the Comprehensive Agreement which had already been approved by the
Halifax County Service Authority. The amendment, which was simply a
clarification of some of the language of the agreement, was passed
unanimously by South Boston Council and on a 6-1 vote by County
Supervisors with ED#1 R. E. "Dickie" Abbott opposing it. Halifax
Council could not vote on the amendment because it did not have a
quorum of its members present.