City Hall Despite Spending Errors, Roanoke Ended '24 Budget Year with Extra Cash There remain dueling narratives about who’s to blame for some of the recent spending and accounting lapses that auditors flagged.
City Hall Roanoke Spent $5 Million More in '24 Than Council Authorized, Violating State Law, Audit Says The finding underscored accounting issues that have plagued the government and which emerged during a belt-tightening budget year.
City Hall Roanoke Council Eyes Moving School Finance System Back Under City Hall Oversight Roanoke City Council members are considering whether to merge the city and school district's finance systems in a bid for more oversight.
City Hall Volosin: 'Mismanagement' Put Roanoke in Budget Predicament In a prepared statement Volosin blamed the former administration of City Manager Bob Cowell for numerous issues.
City Hall Roanoke City Council Meals Tax Majority Sets Table for Increase City officials said a private meeting with school officials after a dustup was productive.
City Hall Who Is Roanoke's Mayor? City's AI Chatbot Stumped for Now. A new AI chatbot - Virtual Assistant Virginia - is now at work on Roanoke’s municipal website.
City Hall Knives Out: Restaurant Owners, School Advocates Pick Apart Proposed City Budget City Council has two significant decisions ahead: whether to raise the meals tax and to keep school funding level.
City Hall Higher Meals Tax, Flat School Funding Feature in Roanoke Budget Proposal City Manager Valmarie Turner began flashing warning signs last month that the city needed to tighten its belt.
City Hall Roanoke May Need To Slash Millions in City Spending As Budget Woes Emerge The shortfall could affect schools, public transportation and parks.
City Hall Roanoke Sues Residents Who Cut Down City-Owned Trees It’s a rare case for the city to bring to court. In recent years, Roanoke has tried to protect and expand the city’s tree canopy.
City Hall Powers Sworn In on Roanoke City Council After Council Reverses Earlier Deadlock The swearing-in capped an intense lobbying campaign to fill the rest of Mayor Joe Cobb’s City Council term.
City Hall Roanoke To Defend Against 2 Lawsuits Alleging Toxic Workplace Under Ex-Leaders The lawsuits could shed further light on a drama that gripped Roanoke city hall last year, when claims of a toxic workplace preceded the city manager’s resignation.
City Hall Roanoke Aims To Seize, Sell Downtown Parking Garage Plagued By Tax, Code Issues The parking garage beside the Amtrak platform has been closed since April, when city officials deemed the structure unsafe.
City Hall 'Council Isn't Immune': Property Values Are Rising. Here's How Much Elected Leaders' Homes Went Up. Roanoke property owners are seeing an average 8 percent increase in their real estate tax bills this year, a historically high but downward-trending assessment.
City Hall Roanoke Botched Funding for After-School Contractor, Lost Out on Grant Money, Audit Finds The city failed to budget enough money for youth programs run by The Foundry, leading to discord and lost revenue, an audit found.
City Hall For City Manager, Roanoke Hires Northern Virginia Official with Background in Housing Valmarie Turner, Fairfax’s deputy city manager, becomes Roanoke’s next city manager next month, replacing Bob Cowell.
City Hall Roanoke Council Backpedals on Abolishing Its Youth Athletics Review Board Members of the Youth Athletics Review Board were caught off guard last month after the city attorney floated a proposal to do away with the recently formed group.
City Hall Changes at Roanoke City Hall Show Interim Manager Isn't Just Keeping Seat Warm A recent reassignment of duties at the top shows Roanoke’s interim city manager, Lydia Patton, is not content to carry on the status quo.