News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date:	Tuesday, February 27, 1996
Contact:	Tom Brannan, Assistant City Manager (703) 838-4300

KERRY J. DONLEY INSTALLED AS ALEXANDRIA'S MAYOR; CITY COUNCIL ELECTS REDELLA S. PEPPER AS VICE MAYOR; CITY COUNCIL PETITIONS CIRCUIT COURT TO SET SPECIAL ELECTION ON APRIL 9 TO FILL VACANT SEAT ON CITY COUNCIL

  Kerry J. Donley was installed today as Mayor of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. Mayor Donley, 40, was elected
in a special citywide election on February 20.

Mayor Donley was elected to City Council in 1988 and reelected in 1991 and 1994. He has served as the City's
Vice Mayor since July 1994. Mayor Donley will fill the unexpired term of former Mayor Patricia S. Ticer, who resigned
in January after her election in November 1995 to the Senate of Virginia. Mr. Donley, a Vice President and Branch
Manager of Crestar Bank, is the 70th Mayor in the City's history. His term of office extends through June 30, 1997.

Succeeding Mayor Donley as Vice Mayor is City Councilwoman Redella S. "Del" Pepper. Vice Mayor Pepper
was elected by a vote of City Council at its meeting this evening. Vice Mayor Pepper's term of office extends
through June 30, 1997.

Mayor Donley also chairs the Alexandria Economic Development and Tourism Board, the Alexandria Convention
and Visitors Board of Governors, and is co-chair of the Task Force to Monitor the Closing of Cameron Station, the
Clermont Interchange Task Force, and the Beauregard Street Corridor Task Force. In addition, he serves on the
Alexandria City Manager's Anti-Drug Task Force, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Improvement Study Committee, the
Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, and the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments (COG). Mayor Donley resides in the West End with his wife, Eva, and their five daughters.


Vice Mayor Pepper has served on City Council since 1985, and is co-chair of City Council's Task Force on Information
and Communication Technologies, the Task Force to Monitor the Closing of Cameron Station, the Beauregard Street
Corridor Task Force, and the Clermont Interchange Task Force. She is also a member of the City Manager's Anti-Drug Task
Force, the Alexandria Library Board, the Alexandria Commission on Aging, the Northern Virginia Planning District
Commission, the Alexandria-Arlington Task Force on the Waste-To-Energy Plant, the Alexandria Transportation
Safety Commission, and COG's Metropolitan Washington Air Quality and Human Services and Public Safety Committees.
In addition, she serves as the City's alternate on the COG Board of Directors. Vice Mayor Pepper and her husband,
Dr. F.J. Pepper, reside in Alexandria's West End. Their son, Murphy, attends Duke University Law School.

To fill the vacancy on City Council created by Mayor Donley's recent election, City Council has declared the
Council position vacant and has petitioned the Circuit Court to set a special election for Tuesday, April 9. Special elections
are required when a vacancy on City Council occurs more than 180 days prior to the next regularly scheduled election, which
is May 6, 1997. The Circuit Court is required by the City Charter to order a special election not less than 40 days nor more than
60 days following its receipt of City Council's resolution announcing the vacancy on Council.

Assuming the Judges of the Alexandria Circuit Court call for the special election on April 9, the deadline for City Council
candidates to file a certificate of candidate qualifications with the City Registrar of Voters will be 5 p.m., Monday, March 11.