But it will take several more years to stabilize the city’s budget, the mayor and other officials predicted.
Mike Gangloff
Mike Gangloff is a longtime journalist in the western part of Virginia.
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Agenda Montgomery County: Supervisors’ Monday agenda includes possible 50% pay raise for themselves, buying property in Christiansburg, and hearing about schools budget
Supervisors presently are paid $14,000 per year; they are to vote on raising that to $21,000 beginning on Jan. 1, 2026.
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Agenda Lynchburg: City council, school board to meet Tuesday in wake of resignation votes
The joint meeting comes as discussion continues about school board member Christian DePaul’s conduct toward the acting school superintendent.
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Agenda Montgomery County: School board to vote Tuesday on retired officer plan
Most Montgomery schools have school resource officers who are active members of the county’s law enforcement agencies. The school board may also hire retired officers.
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Agenda Montgomery County: School board to consider hate speech policy, plan to hire retired police
A vote on a new hate speech policy comes seven months after the school board’s one Black member highlighted student reports that a racial slur was used frequently in the county’s schools.
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Agenda Lynchburg: City council to hold public hearing, vote on plan to launch new facility for Rivermont Schools
The private Rivermont group teaches K-12 students with autism.
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Agenda Montgomery County: Public hearings Monday for tourism agreement, short-term lodging proposal
Supervisors are scheduled to vote on both matters.
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Agenda Lynchburg: City council meets Friday to choose mayor, vice mayor
It seems likely to be a fraught decision — two years of bickering followed the council’s last battle over leadership roles.
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Agenda Montgomery County: Supervisors to vote Monday on censuring one of their own
Supervisor Sara Bohn may be rebuked for missing too many meetings. Supervisors also plan to vote on renewing an agreement for a joint tourism program operated with Christiansburg and Blacksburg.
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Agenda Lynchburg: City council to hold public hearing, consider Leesville Road townhome plan
Zoning decisions could allow 88 townhomes and parking at 750 Leesville Road in an area designated mostly for institutional use.
