The 2024 General Assembly will consider letting every locality in the state do what Del. James Edmunds, R-Halifax, pushed through a skeptical General Assembly in 2019: giving the people of his home county the power to impose an extra tax on themselves to fix or replace an aging high school.
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By partnering with a local broadband provider, Roanoke County intends to continue spending on costly rural internet expansion, even without help from an anticipated state grant.
More than 300 homes and 26 home-based businesses in the Windsor Hills, Cave Spring and Catawba districts will receive access to internet in the next two years, according to county documents, if the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors votes as indicated to approve a $3 million project at its next meeting.
Cox Communications is partnering with the county to complete the project, in planning for more than a year, said County Administrator Dan OâDonnell. County leaders hoped to fund most of the project using $1.7 million applied for from the stateâs Virginia Telecommunication Initiative program.