Roanoke County board adopts consent agenda, schedules work sessions and moves to closed session

The Roanoke County Board of Supervisors adopted its consent agenda by roll-call vote during the March 26 meeting and received and filed routine reports included with the agenda.

An unidentified board member moved to adopt the consent agenda and a second was recorded; the clerk called the roll and members recorded affirmative votes (Mr. Radford, an anonymized member, Mr. Mahoney, Miss Shepherd and Mr. North). The board also voted to receive and file reports submitted with the agenda.

The board announced two work sessions to follow the meeting: one to discuss opioid and payment-authority grant applications and another to continue discussion of the proposed FY2025 operating budget and the FY2025-2034 capital improvement program; both work sessions convened on the 3rd floor after the meeting.

Before adjourning to the work sessions, the board moved into closed session under the Code of Virginia to discuss the acquisition of real property in the Cavespring Magisterial District and potential location or expansion of a business or industry in the Cavespring and Catawba Magisterial Districts, citing Section 2.2-3711 of the Code of Virginia. The motion to enter closed session carried on a recorded roll call with affirmative votes from present members.

During the citizen-comments period, Joe Colcimo of Crest Hill Drive praised the county's responders and budget work and urged attention to tax impacts on widows and retired residents, calling on the board to consider the distributional effects of assessment-driven tax increases.

Next steps: the board will reconvene for evening public hearings at 7 p.m. and will meet again to consider final budget adoption on May 28.