Brad Grose and Billy Martin With combined experience of 34 years as local elected officials, we have seen how the landscape has changed in the greater region. Where members of city or town councils and boards of supervisors once looked at each other suspiciously and didnât see how working together would benefit individual local governments, they now see the favorable outcomes and joint benefits of regional cooperation. Nowhere is that more apparent than from our seats as the current and former chairmen of the Roanoke Valley Alleghany Regional Commission. This organization has been at the forefront of the coalitions and relationships that have helped make a regional solution an early choice rather than a last resort and made the Roanoke Alleghany region one of the best examples of regional cooperation in Virginia.