A resolution to proceed with boundary expansion was expected to be at the top of Halifax Town Council's agenda last night.
If passed, the action would be the first step in starting negotiations with the county, explained Halifax Town Manager Bob Greene yesterday.
The town is looking for approval of the boundary "hopefully by the end of August" but with an effective date of December 31, 1999.
The next step is to provide the county with proposals and, of course, a public hearing, added the town manager.
Although Greene declined to speculate on proposed new town boundaries prior to the Tuesday night council meeting, it was widely anticipated the new Town of Halifax boundary would meet South Boston's line on Highway 501 in the Centerville area.
In the town's previous boundary adjustment proposal the Golf Course Road area and Salishan were included. Yesterday, however, Greene would not elaborate on the town's new boundary proposal.
He did say he expected a map and general description of the area to be released last night.
The town manager said Halifax wants to extend its boundary "to provide the necessary services that the urban corridor requires and to help develop the urban area the county and two towns are now looking at," an urban planning area which is to be incorporated in the county's comprehensive plan."
Increasing available revenue as well as the ability to provide "more cost-effective services" also were named by Greene as prompting expansion. "And to have the necessary population to look at extending water and sewer services to those areas where they are not currently provided," he added.
Boundary adjustment negotiations first started with the county in 1994, according to Greene. However, town /county negotiations broke down during the last session, one in which South Boston successfully annexed territory with a midnight December 31, 1997 dateline.

One double fatality and several accidents with injuries darkened the holiday weekend in Halifax County.
"The holiday weekend started very badly Friday," said Sgt. T.A. LaRue with the Virginia State Police.
LaRue was referring to the tragic death of a mother and her two-year-old son, who were killed on U.S. 58 Friday while enroute to see her family in Clarksville.
Sandy Bowen Harris, 29, of High Point and her son, Austin Bowen Harris, were both killed when Harris, who was driving a Honda Accord, smashed into the rear bumper of a Halifax County school bus near Route 703 around 4:30 p.m.
While the driver of the bus, Rita F. Long, was badly shaken by the accident, neither she nor any of the five students remaining on the bus were injured.
Two hours earlier, a Nathalie teen was injured when she collided with a tree near Route 501.
Reports indicated that Catherine Shavonne Jones, 19, was driving a 1985 Ford hatchback along Acorn Road (Route 645) when she ran off the right side of the road two-tenths of a mile east of Route 501 and struck a tree.
Trooper D.T. Cooper II, who investigated the 2:30 p.m. accident, charged Jones with reckless driving.
Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $1,500.
Very early the following morning, a deer bolted across a road in Scottsburg and caused a young Mecklenburg County man to wreck his vehicle.
Brian Keith Fisher, 23, of Buffalo Junction, was injured when he swerved to miss a deer and struck an embankment along Green Level Road (Route 720) seven-tenths of a mile east of Scottsburg Road (Route 344) at 3 a.m.
Investigating State Trooper R.T. Ridgeway wrote Fisher an equipment violation citation.
Damage to Fisher's 1994 Hyundai two-door was estimated at $1,200.
Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m., Shalita Monique Featherston, 20, of Semora, N.C., was injured when she crashed her car in Alton.
According to a report filed by investigating State Trooper D.T. Conner, Featherston lost control of her 1995 Dodge four-door while traveling through a curve on Cluster Springs Road (Route 658), one-tenth of a mile east of Traynham Grove Road (Route 797), at a high rate of speed and ran off the right side of the road striking a ditch and an embankment.
Conner charged Featherston with reckless driving and estimated the vehicle sustained $9,000 in damages.
A 20-year-old Phoenix woman was injured in a single-vehicle accident shortly after midnight Sunday.
Stephanie Anne Hancock reportedly was traveling along U.S. 360 around 1:15 a.m. Sunday when she ran off the right shoulder three-tenths of a mile east of Scottsburg Road (Route 344), swerved across the road and struck several trees.
Investigating State Trooper L.G. Perkins charged Hancock with reckless driving.
The vehicle, a 1988 Oldsmobile, was a total loss with an estimated $6,000 in damages.
Less than a hour later, William Oliver Arendall, 52, of Halifax, was injured in a single-vehicle accident along U.S. 58 near the North Carolina state line.
According to reports, Arendall ran off the right side of U.S. 58 a half a mile east of Calvary Road (Route 119) and struck several trees with his 1992 Mazda pick-up truck.
Damage to the truck was estimated at $7,500, and Trooper L.G. Perkins charged Arendall with reckless driving.
Two juveniles and an Alton woman were injured in a two-vehicle wreck near the intersection of U.S. 58 and Old Cluster Springs Road (Route 704) Sunday evening at 9:40 p.m.
Reports indicated that a Nathalie teen was charged with failure to yield the right-of-way after he ran into the side of a 1994 Dodge pick-up driven by Lois Medley Perry, 48, of Alton less than a mile west of Old Cluster Springs Road.
Two teenage boys riding in the Perry vehicle were also injured.
Damage to the Medley vehicle was estimated at $5,000.
According to LaRue, the Virginia State Police did not set up any sobriety checkpoints in Halifax County during the Memorial Day weekend, but troopers did arrest a total of three drivers on DUI charges.
"For the care period running from Friday through Monday, Virginia State Police in Halifax County made three DUI arrests, and issued citations for 20 seatbelt violations and six child restraint violations as the result of a mobile enforcement effort," LaRue said.

Friday's double fatality increased the number of people killed on Halifax County roads so far this year to seven, which is more than double the number of fatalities recorded by this time last year.
But while the number of fatalities in Halifax County has risen sharply from this time in 1998, nationally the number of highway fatalities continues to decline. In fact, according to preliminary figures released by the government late last week, traffic deaths, specifically alcohol-related traffic deaths, have hit a record low.
Overall, 41,480 people were killed on the nation's highways in 1998, down from 42,103 in 1997, according to figures compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
These figures indicated that alcohol was involved in 15,936 traffic fatalities in America, or 38.4 percent of total highway deaths, as opposed to 16,189 fatalities, or 38.6 percent of the total, the year before.
Virginia State Police Sgt. T.A. LaRue said he estimates approximately 40 to 50 percent of traffic fatalities in Halifax County are usually alcohol related, but at this time he did not have the actual figures tallied.
Three traffic fatalities had been recorded by the end of May last year, one of which occurred in February, and two that occurred in March.
But while there were fewer fatalities by this time last year, accidents involving personal injury this year have decreased by 20 compared to 1998 totals provided by the Halifax County State Police Office.

Two Halifax County men pleaded guilty to dealing cocaine in Halifax County before Halifax County Circuit Court Judge Charles L. McCormick III Friday.
Ralph Luster Staten Jr., 22, of Chamberlain Street, South Boston, and Johnnie John Vass Jr., 19, of College Street, South Boston, were both arrested last March by members of the Halifax/South Boston Regional Narcotic Enforcement Task Force during Operation Street Sweep.
Narcotic Prosecutor George Buzzy with the Commonwealth Attorney's Office in Halifax County indicated during the two men's separate bench trials that task force agents had both audio and visual evidence of Vass and Staten selling cocaine to undercover agents on separate occasions in October and November of 1998.
McCormick found both men guilty, and granted defense attorney C. Crowder's request that both men be evaluated for bootcamp and the diversion center before they are sentenced during the July term of Circuit Court.
Both Staten and Vass remain free on bond.
In other cases heard Friday:
· Russell Roberts, 54, of Canada Lane, Nathalie, was sentenced to 12 months in jail and ordered to pay a $500 fine for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
Roberts indicated that he desired to appeal the court's ruling, and remains free on $25,000 bond, on the condition that he only come to Halifax County on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays to look after his mushroom farm.
· Ronald Stuart Bowes, 34, of Harmony Road, Alton, pleaded guilty and was found guilty of forging and uttering a check for the amount of 114.36 written on the Roxboro, N.C., checking account of former Alton resident Marie Bowling last January 21.
Bowes will be sentenced in July and remains free on bond.
· Willie McKinley Royster, 40, of Bass Trail, South Boston, pleaded not guilty to charges of forgery and uttering.
Judge McCormick found Royster guilty as charged.
Royster remains free on bond and a presentence report has been ordered for the July court term.
· Rodney William Deal, 34, of Bill Tuck Highway, South Boston, pleaded guilty to driving after being declared an habitual offender and eluding a police officer.
He was sentenced to 12 months in jail on each of the two counts for a total of 24 months.
McCormick ruled that the two 12 months sentences would run concurrently, but consecutively with another sentence he is currently serving in Mecklenburg County.
Deal was remanded.
· Jesse Ray Traynham, 35, of Coles Ferry Road, Nathalie, was remanded to jail to await a July sentencing hearing after pleading guilty and being found guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery on a family/household member and felony assault and battery on a family/household member, the family/household member being Cindy Hamlett Traynham.

South Boston Police are asking for the public's assistance regarding a shooting that occurred at the Green Apartments in Sinai Monday night.
According to investigator Lt. Rick Loftis with the South Boston Police Department, Robert H. Perkins, 18, of the Fairmont Apartments, South Boston, was shot in the wrist around 8:45 p.m. Monday while he was in the vicinity of the Green Apartments in Sinai.
Loftis said Perkins, who suffered a gunshot wound to his left wrist, told investigators that he did not see his assailant, nor were there any witnesses to the incident.
"He said the bullet came out of nowhere," Loftis said. The caliber of the bullet is also unknown at this time.
Perkins was taken to the Halifax Regional Emergency Room by private vehicle where he was treated an released.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to please call Crimestoppers at 572-TIPS or 476-TIPS.
Callers need not identify themselves, nor will they be required to testify in court.

The first political volley of the November election shot across the commonwealth's attorney's bow yesterday, his challenger manning the canon.
Public defender and Independent candidate Robert Meeks hurled the challenge, one accusing Commonwealth's Attorney John Greenbacker of dropping the ball in the Louis Jordan Powell Jr. murder trial.
Last week the Virginia Court of Appeals cited a procedural error in the case, and ruled to dismiss charges against the convicted killer of South Boston teenager Jason Chandler on the grounds that Powell was not tried within five months of his preliminary hearing.
Powell's release is expected this summer.
"What is it that is more important than to keep track of what is going on in a murder trial?" asked Meeks yesterday.
Last week Greenbacker expressed his outrage with the court's decision.
"I disagree with the panel decision in the Powell case," said Greenbacker in a prepared statement. "The testimonial evidence and Circuit Court records presented at the motions hearing showed without contradiction that the only delay in Mr. Powell's trial was for the benefit of his attorney at the time, the public defender."
The statement continued, "The decision may have been justifiable if there was no record in the Circuit Court documenting the continuance and its requestor. In fact, there was such a record filed, but this panel of the Court of Appeals found it insufficient to cooborate the testimonial evidence presented at the hearing."
The Appeals panel in its finding said the record contained no order or docket entry by the judge setting a trial date. "The record in this case clearly established that no order was entered setting a continued trial date. On this record, the Commonwealth has not borne its burden of proving a delay countenanced by Code 19.2-243."
Yesterday, Greenbacker declined to respond to Meeks' letter except to say, "Like Rhett Butler in 'Gone With the Wind,' I apologize for all my shortcomings."
Meeks' challenge came in a Letter to the Editor yesterday. The letter in its entirety follows:
Residents of Halifax County need not, as Commonwealth's Attorney John Greenbacker, Jr. has suggested, spend time pondering the legal validity of the recent Virginia Court of Appeals panel decision setting convicted killer Louis J. Powell, Jr. free. Rather, what we need to ask is why a speedy trial issue reached the Court of Appeals in this case at all. That is, why did the Commonwealth's Attorney fail to personally take the steps required to ensure that a definite trial date was set for Mr. Powell; to ensure that his trial date was prior to the five months statutory speedy trial limit; and to ensure that any changes in his trial date were reflected in court orders signed by the trial judge and filed in the case file prior to the speedy trial deadline date. For a Commonwealth's Attorney to omit these essential steps in any felony case is bad enough; but, such neglect in a first degree murder case is inexcusable. Furthermore, for the Commonwealth's Attorney to try and deflect the blame onto the Court of Appeals panel, or for anyone to even suggest that our hard working, dedicated court clerks were in some ways responsible for a convicted murderer being set free, simply will not do. No way! On this one, the buck should stop with the Commonwealth's Attorney," wrote Meeks.

By SONJA BARISIC
Associated Press Writer
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) - Hurricane Bonnie last summer gave Virginians just a taste of the damage that a major storm can do, state and local emergency management officials warned Tuesday at the start of the six-month 1999 hurricane season.
With forecasters predicting there will be 14 named storms, including nine hurricanes, people in hurricane-prone areas need to prepare for the worst - and right away, officials said.
Bonnie hit Hampton Roads in late August as it was heading back over the Atlantic Ocean after moving through eastern North Carolina. About 80 percent of utility customers were left in the dark at one point as trees and limbs fell to the winds, and President Clinton declared a federal disaster area.
''That was only a heads-up,'' Michael Cline, Virginia's coordinator of emergency services, told reporters during a briefing on hurricanes. ''If a storm as small as Bonnie can do the damage it did, imagine what would happen if the winds were tenfold.''
With that in mind, emergency management officials are urging people to take simple, relatively low-cost steps to prepare themselves for hurricanes and mitigate damage to their homes.
For example, installing truss braces or galvanized metal hurricane straps in homes can prevent roofs from collapsing during high winds, Cline said.
In addition, people should determine if their homes are in the storm surge flooding zone so they will know whether they will need to seek alternative shelter during an emergency, said Bruce Sterling, chairman of the Hampton Roads Emergency Management Committee, made up of emergency management officials and representatives of the Red Cross, the military and other organizations.
People also should stock up on water, nonperishable foods and other essentials, said Sterling, who also is a Portsmouth fire battalion chief.
People tend to put off preparing for hurricanes because they mistakenly think coastal Virginia is immune to really bad storms, said Cmdr. Scott Livezey, a meteorologist with the Navy's 2nd Fleet.
But in 1933, 18 people died during a hurricane that flooded all of downtown Norfolk, Livezey said.
Other storms have been strong enough to alter coastal features, he said. In 1749, the Chesapeake Bay rose 15 feet above normal during a tremendous hurricane and a hook-shaped sand bar of 800 acres washed up, becoming the area known as Willoughby Spit.
''Nothing says we can't have another one of these things come through here again,'' said Cmdr. Jose Atangan, executive officer of the Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center.
This year, Atangan said, the Navy is expecting to be as busy or busier than last year, when it moved more than 100 ships from 11 ports, including Norfolk, out to sea to ride out three storms.
''The bottom line? Prepare yourself and your families for this hurricane season,'' Atangan said. ''It's going to be a doozie.''

Emma Chappell Hall died May 27, 1999 at Schnurmacher Nursing Home in White Plains, NY at the age of 89.
Mrs. Hall was born in Halifax County on January 16, 1910 the daughter of Lorenzo and Hallie Bruce Owen Chappell and was married to Howard Taft Hall. She was a member of Jeters Chapel Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Howard H. Hall Sr. of Charlotte, NC and Lorenzo M. Hall of Springfield, MA; one daughter, Marion H. Pedrow of White Plains; 11 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. Hall will be held today, June 2 at 11 a.m. at Jeters Chapel Baptist Church with Rev. Roderick P. Fitz officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Alan Grey Davis, 45, of 2172 Bull Creek Rd., Nathalie died Monday, May 31, 1999 at Virginia Baptist Hospital.
Mr. Davis was born in Halifax County on January 26, 1954 the son of Arnita Bomar Davis of Nathalie and the late Ernie M. Davis Jr. He was a member of Clover Bottom Baptist Church and manager of Harris-Teeter in Danville.
Survivors include two sons and a daughter-in-law, Anthony and Julie Davis and Alex Davis, all of Nathalie; a grandson, Dustin Davis of Nathalie; five brothers, Ernie Davis of Gladys, Ted Davis of Monroe, Mitchell Davis of Pamplin, Billy Davis and Don Davis, both of Nathalie; five sisters, Patricia Fisher, Raye Davis, Pam Rudder, Debbie Owen, and Sally Ray, all of Nathalie; his fiance Linda Tuck Rutledge of Red Oak and her children, David, Shannon, Brandon and Brandy; 24 nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Eddie Ray.

A funeral service for Mr. Davis will be held at 2 p.m. today, June 2 at Clover Bottom Baptist Church by Revs. James Crocker and Ed Griffin. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Those wishing to give memorials are asked to consider the American Cancer Society.

Lelia Tanksley McGregor of 5084 Mountain Road, Halifax died Monday, May 31, 1999 at Halifax Regional Hospital. She was 80 years of age.
Mrs. McGregor was born in Pittsylvania County on August 28,1918 the daughter of William Tanksley and Lelia Kates Tanksley and was married to Allie Wilson McGregor. She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church.
Survivors include her husband; six daughters, Violet Pleasant of South Boston, Betty Womack of Halifax, Ruth L loyd of King, NC, Lois Owens and Sandra Bibee, both of Ringgold and Eunice King of Lynch Station; two sons, Wallae Dean McGregor and Harry Wilson McGregor, both of South Boston; one sister, Annie Barksdale of Bolling Green; two half-sisters, Mary Flowers and Louise Simpson, both of Danville; one half-brother, Walter Tanksley of Danville; 18 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildrena nd four great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. McGregor will be held Thursday, June 3 at 2 p.m. at Powell Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Rudolph Jacobs officiating. Burialw ill take plae in St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at Powell Funeral Home tonight from 7 until 8:30 and other times at the home.

Eugene Dodson Hodnett Sr. of 3205 Cody Road, Nathalie died Monday, May 31, 1999 at Halifax Regional Hospital. He was 80 years of age at the time of his death.
Mr. Hodnett was born in Halifax County on April 19,1919 the son of Major Wister Hodnett and Sallie H. Hodnett and was married to Nannie Marshall Hodnett. He was a member of Clover Bottom Baptist Church, and was a self-employed contractor.
Survivors include one son, Eugene D. Hodnett Jr. of Nathalie; one daughter, Bonnie Hodnett King of Leasburg, NC; one granddaughter, Wendy Genelle Hodnett of Leasburg; one sister, Doris Tucker of Chatham; and a special friend, Della Mae Roark of Nathalie.
Funeral services for Mr. Hodnett will be held Thursday, June 3 at 2 p.m. at Clover Bottom Baptist Church with Revs. James B. Crocker and Dr. Jerry Jordan conducting the service. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Powell Funeral Home tonight, June 2 from 7 until 8:30 and other times at the home of his son, 3217 Cody Road.