The city and HSV Entertainment will end the lease agreement that allowed the company to run what is currently known as the Royal Palace Theatre.
The task awaiting Roanoke Rapids City Manager Joseph Scherer is to now come up with a proposed budget for next fiscal year where early projections show expenditures outweigh revenues.
Roanoke Rapids City Council this evening recognized the Main Street program for its designation as an accredited National Main Street Program.
Parks and recreation and public works faced Roanoke Rapids City Council today to give their proposed budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.
Based on the numbers presented by department heads in work sessions, it appears the projected 2015-2016 budget for the city could top the current financial plan by $3 million.
The city contends council followed all guidelines and requirements when it turned down a conditional use permit for an apartment complex at Villages at Cross Creek.
The biggest items in Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Chuck Hasty's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year include equipping the rest of the department with body cameras, electronic fingerprinting equipment and three new employees.
The immediate needs of the Roanoke Rapids Fire Department are relatively few.
The city's Planning and Development Department is looking to fix immediate vehicle needs while it also looks for ways to improve the Roanoke Rapids streetscape for the future.
Discussion of raising taxes is something that can't be discounted in the city's budget deliberations for the upcoming fiscal year, Roanoke Rapids City Councilman Wayne Smith said following this evening's first work session on the financial plan.
