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Article: MAIN STREET RADFORD TO EXPAND ITS REACH
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- November 24, 2002
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Main Street Radford is coping with a huge cut in city funding not
by cutting services - but by expanding them.
The program, which started in 1989, was one of only two in
Virginia that got all of its money from its local government. This
year, Radford City Council cut the group's operating budget from
$17,557 to $1,511. The city also continues to pay the salary of Main
Street Director Gerri Glass.
Instead of eliminating services, Main Street has broadened its
coverage area from just the city's central business district to all
of East and West Main streets.
"It's definitely a change," said Glass, who has been the program's
director for more than five years. "And it's definitely a challenge
to ...