Roanoke Rapids City Council tonight approved a resolution endorsing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a joint venture with Dominion Power, Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas.
Roanoke Rapids City Council this evening honored the efforts of two officers that resulted in high profile arrests over the course of late spring and this summer.
Roanoke Rapids City Council Tuesday night gave City Manager Joseph Scherer his performance evaluation during a closed session portion of the meeting.
A scaled-back vehicle purchasing package through installment financing passed by a 4-1 vote during a Roanoke Rapids City Council meeting this evening.
The cost to replace a broken dehumidifier at the Roanoke Rapids Aquatic Center is between $126,000 and $132,000, a consulting engineer told city council this evening.
A Thursday meeting between city officials and black community leaders left both sides with an agreement to continue talks, participants said in statements released today.
Roanoke Rapids City Council this evening scrubbed further discussion of vehicle financing until it meets in September.
Black community leaders and Roanoke Rapids city officials plan to meet Thursday to discuss issues arising from the use of a Taser on a 15-year-old boy in April.
City council may not immediately make a decision on whether to go with installment financing to make critical vehicle purchases after one of its members discussed the option of pulling the nearly $600,000 from the undesignated fund balance.
Roanoke Rapids City Council will hold a public hearing next Monday night to garner citizen comments on the purchase of 15 vehicles by using installment financing.
