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Roanoke council approves multiple ordinances, adopts pay plan ordinance on second reading
Summary
On May 19, Roanoke City Council passed several ordinances (grant acceptance, easement, zoning condition repeal, new blighted-property tax class, and school-board appropriation) and adopted a pay-plan budget ordinance on its second reading; the recap lists outcomes but does not provide roll-call tallies for all items.
Roanoke City Council passed multiple ordinances during its May 19 meetings, including acceptance of a state burn-building grant, an easement to the Western Virginia Water Authority, repeal of conditions on a Salem Avenue property requested by Sunlight Bakery Building LLC, a new taxation classification for blighted and derelict properties, and an appropriation to address Roanoke City Public School Board budget shortfalls.
Council also passed a budget ordinance authorizing the pay plan for officers, employees, council-appointed officers and constitutional officers. The meeting recap notes this was the ordinance's second vote; it previously received a 4-2 vote on May 12. The recap did not include a roll-call tally for the May 19 vote in the summary.
Most ordinance outcomes were reported as "passed" in the meeting recap; the summary did not record mover/second details or vote tallies for the individual ordinances. The recap also did not list specific appropriation amounts or the tax rate for the newly created blighted-property classification.
The council's actions included acceptance of a grant identified in the recap as from the "Virginia Department of Fire Grama" (recap wording). The transcript uses that phrasing; meeting records should be consulted for the authoritative grant name and amount.
