ROANOKE RAPIDS — All the known proposals are in, the public hearing set and tonight the advisory committee meets to discuss the future of The Roanoke Rapids Theatre.

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The Theater Advisory committee meets at 5:15 p.m., today in the first floor conference room of city hall. The public’s first chance to speak out on the proposals will be on Oct. 28 when two hearings are planned.

The first will be at 10:30 a.m. in the first floor conference room of city hall at 1040 Roanoke Ave., and the other during council’s regular meeting that evening. The regular City Council meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Lloyd Andrews City Meeting Hall on Jackson Street.

Between now and Oct. 28, some 21 proposals will be reviewed, Mayor Drewery Beale said following Tuesday night’s council meeting. Three more came in Tuesday, City Manager Phyllis said, including one which has a lease-purchase option. Tuesday was the deadline for submitting proposals to buy or manage the venue, which is now closed.

That makes two proposals to purchase the theater, the one publicly known being one from Chicago businessman Lafayette Gatling.

Details of the proposals will not be released until after Thursday’s city council meeting, when a recommendation from the Advisory Committee is expected to be given. The City Council meeting will be held at 5 p.m. at the Lloyd Andrews City Meeting Hall.

Following Thursday’s meeting the proposals will be on file at city hall, open for public inspection prior to the two public hearings.

Beale anticipates there being a five-minute time limit on the comments made during the public hearings and that slide shows will be given on each proposal.

In other matters Tuesday council:

• Heard a presentation from Micheal Rentiers of Nucor on a Fighting for American Jobs town hall meeting that will be held Oct. 21 at the Helms Center on the Campus of Chowan University in Murfreesboro from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Nucor has held 14 of these meetings across the country, Rentiers told council.

In a resolution approved by City Council, which supports a strong trade policy, it was noted that since 1998, North Carolina has lost more than 280,000 jobs to unfair trade practices. In the past six years, Halifax County has lost more than 1,100 manufacturing jobs, accounting for nearly 35 percent of the manufacturing jobs in the county.

• Accepted the low bid of Appalachian Environmental Services to restore and stabilize two streams along the Roanoke river, one being near Rollingwood Avenue and the other being near KapStone at the transmission lines. Cost of the project is $271,673.27, which will be paid for through a clean Water Management Trust Fund Grant the city received.

• Recognized firefighter promotions. David Marshall and Buzzy Miles were promoted to lieutenant, Brandon Shearin, Craig Jean and Gordon Pearson were promoted to engineers and Perry Myrick was appointed to a probationary firefighter.