The majority of the Amherst County Board of Supervisors is leaning against a 2-percentage-point increase to the countyâs meals tax as a potential revenue source in the upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget, a measure county staff estimates could bring in as much as $550,000 annually.
Supervisors have discussed the possible tax following recent state legislation that opened up meal taxes as a way to create revenue for counties. The countyâs current meals tax is 4%.
Supervisor Claudia Tucker said during a Feb. 23 budget work session she favors a 2-percentage- point increase and setting aside the revenue stream for a specific use such as public safety.
Poplar Forest gets $10K tourism grant
Thomas Jeffersonâs Poplar Forest has received $10,000 from the Virginia Tourism Corporationâs Recovery Marketing Leverage Program.
According to a news release from Poplar Forest, the program is âdesigned to help local and regional tourism entities attract more visitors by leveraging limited local marketing dollars through a local match of the state grant funds.â
âPoplar Forest will use the VTC Recovery Marketing Leverage grant funds to reach out to visitors throughout the Central Virginia region (Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Roanoke and Richmond) and inspire them to plan an excursion to Thomas Jeffersonâs private retreat and other historic tours and locations in Bedford and Lynchburg, promoting architectural history tours at Poplar Forest and the downtown architectural walking tour, and the ongoing landscape restoration at Poplar Forest with the garden and retreat at the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum. These ex
AMHERST â Amherst Countyâs budget plan for fiscal year 2022 currently is projected at $45.7 million and includes a 1.5% cost-of-living pay raise for county employees, based on figures recently presented to the countyâs board of supervisors.
The budget plan, which County Administrator Dean Rodgers will formally propose in coming weeks, reinstates $700,000 in cuts made last year in part to offset the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and make way for a staff salary adjustment. Rodgers said the budget that takes effect July 1 is balanced but after that point the countyâs expenses will begin to outpace revenues.
âWe can do it for one more year and the proposed budget does that,â Rodgers said of balancing the figures. âBeyond that, we need either significantly reduced expenditures or increased revenues.â
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