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Roanoke City Council accepts emergency‑response and tourism grants, approves historical marker and fare‑free transit day
Summary
At its Jan. 21 sessions, Roanoke City Council accepted multiple grants to support hazmat and all‑hazards response teams, approved a tourism marketing grant for the Go Outside festival, and passed resolutions authorizing a Lucy Addison historical marker and a fare‑free transit equity day on Feb. 4.
Roanoke City Council on Jan. 21 approved four ordinances to accept and appropriate grant funds and passed two resolutions addressing local history and transit equity.
The council accepted a grant to support the city hazmat team from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and appropriated funds for the Southwest Virginia All Hazards Incident Management Team for fiscal 2024. It also accepted a grant from the Virginia Tourism Corporation to fund marketing for this year's Go Outside festival and approved an amendment to a lease with the Roanoke Blacksburg Innovation Network on Jefferson Street, the council summary said.
In separate resolutions, council approved a historical marker application to honor Lucy Addison outside the former Lucy Addison High School on Orange Avenue and adopted a fare‑free transit equity day set for Tuesday, Feb. 4. The narrative summary provided with the meeting video did not include vote tallies or the names of motion movers and seconders.
The actions are part of the council's regular consent and ordinance work in the afternoon session; the meeting summary indicated the measures were approved but provided no further detail on funding amounts or conditions for the grants. For specifics on grant amounts, ordinance texts and recorded votes, the city posts full meeting materials and video on its Facebook page, RVTV Channel 3 and rvtv.org.
