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Correspondent The Board of Supervisors met on Wednesday night (April 14) for public hearings on the FY21 budget and the tax rates. PUBLIC HEARINGS “This year was a pretty amazing year for reassessments,” said management analyst Liz McIver. Real estate assessments rose 6.87 percent. The real estate tax rate in the adopted FY21 budget was $0.925 per $100 in assessed value. For FY22, the proposed rate was $0.92 and supervisors have advertised a rate of $0.884. McIver calculated the equalized tax rate at $0.865. Under state law, the county was required to hold a public hearing because the rea...

By Heather Michon Correspondent With planning for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) now in its final weeks, the Board of Supervisors is preparing to vote on a $25 million capital improvement package, including $16.5 million for a new administration building and over $3 million in new fire and rescue vehicles. Capital Improvement Plans, or CIPs, are expenditures focused on building, upgrading repairing, or replacing equipment and infrastructure, generally over a four-year period. In recent years, supervisors have taken a fairly conservative approach to CIP funding, balancing the need to keep the county�...

Fork Union woman gets water well fixed free of charge Fork Union woman gets water well fixed free of charge By Andrew Webb | March 16, 2021 at 3:54 PM EDT - Updated March 17 at 10:52 AM FORK UNION, Va. (WVIR) - Michael and Son Services was able to return running water to Barbara Hill’s house, free of charge as part of the company’s Helping Hands program. The project, which also received help from VAMAC Plumbing, would’ve cost Hill thousands of dollars. “When we notice we have a neighbor in need we’ll take out whatever stops we have to to get the job done,” Plumbing Service Ma...

Correspondent Things got a bit tense between two School Board members during budget talks at Wednesday’s (Feb. 3) meeting. As Superintendent Chuck Winkler laid out the different scenarios of raises, salary scale adjustments and step increases, Charles Rittenhouse (Cunningham) asked what Winkler recommended. Winkler said he preferred giving staff a 2 percent raise with a minimum of $500 and no adjustments to salary scale. Which means if 2 percent of a person’s salary is less than $500, that person would get a $500 raise. The total cost of that proposal is $765,400. Rittenhouse noted that w...

It’s budget time. Just about every meeting from the first of the year until it’s finalized is filled with budget considerations: health care, staff pay, bonuses, spending priorities and district-wide needs. This year the Fluvanna County School Board has an additional task: searching for a new superintendent. Current Superintendent Chuck Winkler will retire in June. The Board would like to hire his replacement as soon as possible. At Wednesday’s (Jan. 20) seminar, besides budget priorities, they discussed what they were looking for in the next superintendent. Chair Perrie Johnson (Fork U...