Town of Pound emerges from its death sentence in Va. General Assembly
“I did have a few people say you’re still not providing services,” Kilgore said. Kennedy shot back: “But we are. We hired someone to do mowing, and we’re fixing streetlights …”Kennedy said she wouldn’t be comfortable until the Senate had also passed the bill. Later that morning, she visited Sen. Todd E. Pillion , who carried that chamber’s version. It had cleared a committee vote just that morning but had yet to reach the Senate floor.“It’s been a lot of work, I won’t lie,” Kennedy said.
On Thursday, after Kennedy had made the drive back to Pound, Pillion’s bill came up on the floor of the Senate. The local government is “on the straight and narrow now, and the town of Pound is looking better than ever,” Pillion assured his fellow lawmakers.Sen. Ghazala F. Hashmi raised her arms in celebration when the bill passed an earlier, procedural vote. Though from a far different part of the state, Hashmi had opposed the measure last year to strip the charter.
Kennedy, who couldn’t watch live video of the vote because she was working at her Verizon call center job, learned of the outcome from a reporter. She felt “relief that we’re somewhat done,” she said, noting that the bills aren’t signed yet. Without the threat of dissolution hanging over their heads, council members can move ahead with next steps: Getting full-time police officers, for instance, and pursuing grants and economic development projects.The year of struggle has been worth it, she added. It proved to lawmakers that Pound deserves to exist.
“I didn’t doubt that we would be able to accomplish everything they wanted us to accomplish,” she said. “I guess my doubt was, would the legislators do what was promised, knowing that we were putting in the work?”
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