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The decision for Virginia Beach to study the potential impact of collective bargaining this year walks back the mayor's previous call to include a collective bargaining advisory referendum on the November ballot.
The 90-day festival task force reviewed the cost-benefit of city sponsorships and festival policies as Virginia Beach continues to ramp up its annual event lineup at the Oceanfront.
Traveling for official city business is often part of a city council member’s job, allowing an elected official to gain insight on how peers in other cities and countries are handling a variety of issues. But with travel come expenses that are often paid for by taxpayers. The expenses cities cover on council members’ behalf make up only a small fraction of overall budgets, but without ...
To learn more about how city council members are spending taxpayer dollars, The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking for all expenses that six Hampton Roads cities paid for city council members in 2023. Total expenses range from about $41,000 in Newport News to $12,400 in Norfolk.
Virginia Beach spent more than $4 million to turn a profit of roughly $1 million on a total of eight festivals, but the wider impact on the local economy made the events worthwhile, several City Council members said. Discussion of event tax revenue comes as a task force is reviewing the cost-benefit of city sponsorships and festival policies.