News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date:	Wednesday, February 26, 1997
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 StreetCorridor Task Force. In addition, he serves on the Alexandria CityManager's Anti-Drug Task Force, the Woodrow
Wilson Bridge ImprovementStudy Committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, and theBoard 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 TaskForce, 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 toorder 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.