City Of Roanoke

City of Roanoke, Virginia's Treasurer's Office acts as a federal grant recipient, administering housing, workforce development, emergency management, and community development funding streams for local programs and initiatives. The City is a U.S. local government entity and does not compete for federal contracts; it receives formula and project grants from HUD, Department of Labor, FEMA, the National Endowment for the Arts, EPA, and the Department of Transportation, and passes through sub-awards to state agencies, nonprofits, and local service providers.

The Treasurer's Office administers the City's largest and most active federal grant portfolio. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates the award count, with 94 awards spanning the Home Investment Partnerships Program (CFDA 14.239), Community Development Block Grants (CFDA 14.006), Emergency Solutions Grants (CFDA 14.231), and Continuum of Care funding (CFDA 14.267). Representative HUD-backed work includes a $1.9 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant from FEMA awarded March 23, 2026 (CFDA 97.083), supporting firefighter recruitment and retention through March 2029; a $5.75 million Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control grant from HUD's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control (CFDA 14.900) awarded March 1, 2025, funding lead inspections, risk assessments, and abatement work in pre-1960 housing through March 2029; and a $770,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Transportation's Asset Concessions and Innovative Finance program (CFDA 20.945) awarded January 6, 2025, supporting public-private partnership capacity building for transit-oriented development through January 2028. The City also receives Department of Health and Human Services awards (35 awards) routed through the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Labor Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) sub-awards (16 awards) for adult, dislocated worker, and youth training programs, Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration grants (17 awards) for pedestrian and greenway infrastructure, and National Endowment for the Arts grants (10 awards) supporting community arts programming. EPA Region 3 awarded a $400,000 Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund cooperative agreement (CFDA 66.818) beginning October 1, 2023, for Phase I and II environmental site assessments and cleanup planning through September 30, 2027.

The Treasurer's Office operates primarily as a pass-through administrator. Of 254 total awards in the source data, 48% are sub-awards distributed to Virginia state agencies (Virginia Department of Social Services, Virginia Department of Workforce Development and Advancement, Virginia Department of Transportation, Department of Criminal Justice Services Virginia), nonprofit organizations (Family Services of Roanoke Valley, National Recreation and Park Association), and federal emergency management entities. The remaining 52% are prime grant awards where the City directly receives and administers federal funding. Recent activity has grown sharply — from 15 awards in 2022 to 61 in 2024, then moderating to 43 in 2025 — reflecting expanded federal formula allocations during the period. Two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure for renewal negotiations.

The portfolio is concentrated in social safety-net, community development, and emergency-response missions. The City's Treasurer's Office administers these funds to address affordable housing development, rental assistance, homelessness prevention, workforce training, lead hazard remediation, community infrastructure, and victim services within Roanoke. No federal contractors report this entity as a customer; the City does not compete for or hold federal contracts and operates exclusively within the grant funding ecosystem.