PALMYRA — The budget numbers missing for the employee benefits are coming into focus a little more clear now as the smoke starts to settle from Wednesday night’s meeting. A look at the funds missing In a previous report first published on Fluco Blog, the numbers were incorrectly added up. The actually numbers are less, [...]
Budget blunder means layoffs still likely to occur
April 22, 2010 By View Comments
Correction PALMYRA — The Board of Supervisors’ approved budget which looked at minimizing layoffs has an oversight that could force county offices to still layoff employees Fluco Blog has learned. The biggest issues are with the constitutional offices where funding decreased $167,406 comparing the 2010 fiscal year to the 2011 fiscal year. The 2011 budget [...]
Supervisors adopt a tax rate, budget
April 22, 2010 By View Comments
PALMYRA — After three hours of debate, the Fluvanna Board of Supervisors passed a budget which included a real estate tax increase of $0.54 per $100 assessed. “We have to seriously consider what the tax rate will do to these people,” chairman Gene Ott, Rivanna District, said to his fellow supervisors in front of an [...]
Board of Supervisors set to adopt tax rate, budget
April 21, 2010 By View Comments
PALMYRA — The Board of Supervisors are meeting Wednesday night to set a tax rate and adopt a budget for the 2011 fiscal year. The supervisors have advertised a budget with a $0.56 tax rate. In that budget the school system would be cut by 6.7 percent to $14 million provided from local funds. The [...]
Supervisors will advertise a tax increase
March 18, 2010 By View Comments
PALMYRA — A true eleventh-hour move brought the Board of Supervisors to approve advertising a real estate tax increase to $.56 per $100 assessed with a 4-2 vote. Earlier in the meeting, after a plan from Supervisor Shaun Kenney, Columbia District, did not elicit support, the board voted 4-2 for no tax increase. Dissenting were [...]
Kenney: These are solutions
March 18, 2010 By View Comments
PALMYRA — Supervisor Shaun Kenney shocked the Board of Supervisors with a plan to increase taxes by 30 percent in order to fix what he called long term problems. The discussion on the budget was deadlocked with Supervisors John Gooch and Mozell Booker willing increase taxes, especially to help school funding. Supervisors Joe Chesser and [...]
Sheriff could feel the pinch
March 12, 2010 By View Comments
PALMYRA — The Fluvanna Sheriff’s Department might be seeing more difficult time without the proposed 10 percent rise in the real estate tax rate. “We can go back and be a ‘Mayberry’ law enforecment or we can be a professional law enforcement,” Sheriff Ryant Washington told the Board of Supervisors during the March 3 budget [...]
Sometimes we all make mistakes
March 11, 2010 By View Comments
Sometimes I make mistakes. Sadly, when I make a mistake it hurts those who depend on my articles. I have a mistake in the School Board Budget article. The proposed tax increase is 10 percent and just $.05 overall. That would raise the tax rate to $.55 per $100 assessed. I sincerely apologize for the [...]