http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/814 Category: Local Government en-us Copyright 2012 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Sat, 26 May 2012 19:18:45 -0400 VIRGINIA BEACH Residents near the intersection of Rosemont Road and South Plaza Trail are now free to drink the water again after new testing did not show E. coli bacteria. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/va-beach-water-samples-clear-e-coli-bacteria Sat, 26 May 2012 17:50:47 -0400 VIRGINIA BEACH A water sample taken during routine testing found E. coli bacteria in a single sample taken near the intersection of Rosemont Road and South Plaza Trail, the city announced in a news release this morning. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/ecoli-va-beach-water-sample-other-tests-negative Fri, 25 May 2012 12:27:09 -0400 Currituck County's operating budget would fall for the third consecutive year, to $64.9 million, and maintain the same real estate tax rate of 32 cents per $100 of value under a proposed spending plan for 2012-13. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/currituck-plan-drops-budget-649-million Wed, 23 May 2012 23:20:00 -0400 NORFOLK The city is working on new scaffolding for the troubled downtown Bankers Trust Building because of an engineering report that found the structure "unsafe to the public." In the March 5 report for the city, engineers cited loose bricks and masonry as a safety concern because pieces could fall onto pedestrians. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/norfolk-adding-scaffolding-downtown-building Wed, 23 May 2012 10:46:08 -0400 JAMES CITY COUNTY Police escorted a vocal county critic out of the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday night after he refused to stop speaking during a public comment period. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/man-ejected-james-city-co-supervisors-meeting Wed, 23 May 2012 12:26:58 -0400 NEWPORT NEWS Residents of Norfolk's East Beach community apparently will have to live with an apartment complex nearby. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted 3-2 on Tuesday to overturn a decision by the Norfolk Wetlands Board last month to deny developers a permit to build the East Beach Marina Apartments, which would be built next to the more fashionable East Beach community. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/state-panel-votes-allow-east-beach-apartment-site Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400 NORFOLK The City Council passed a proposed $1.1 billion budget Tuesday night, but several council members were not quite as keen on it as they were a month ago. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/amid-consternation-norfolk-passes-budget Tue, 22 May 2012 23:43:29 -0400 VIRGINIA BEACH A sliver of land that stood in the way of a potential light-rail station at Town Center now belongs to the Beach. The cost? $300,000. The City Council voted 8-3 Tuesday to purchase the 30-foot-wide strip of property that sat between two prized pieces of land the city already owns, the former Norfolk Southern right-of-way and the old Circuit City building. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/virginia-beach-buys-land-near-rail-rightofway Tue, 22 May 2012 23:09:35 -0400 CHESAPEAKE Motorists using E-ZPass would pay a one-way toll of $1 to use a new four-lane high-rise bridge along a widened stretch of Dominion Boulevard starting in 2017 if City Council approves a consultant's recommendation unveiled Tuesday. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/consultant-toll-should-be-1-chesapeake-roadway Tue, 22 May 2012 16:16:25 -0400 VIRGINIA BEACH Lax financial procedures at the city's farmers market over several years have led to nearly $17,000 going missing and the firing of an employee, according to a recently released city auditor's report. The market operated largely outside of normal city fiscal policies, according to the report, which outlines problems in collecting, depositing and accounting for revenue. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/virginia-beach-farmers-market-audit-17000-gone Tue, 22 May 2012 12:56:41 -0400