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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 The Fluvanna County School Board presented its $18.8 million budget to the Board of Supervisors at a budget work session on Wednesday (Feb. 17). They anticipate that the county will need to pay an estimated $788,000 more than the previous fiscal year. Outgoing Superintendent Chuck Winkler outlined the budget, adopted by the school board at their Feb. 10 meeting. Increases over FY21 include $1 million in salary increases, the hiring of new reading and math specialists to help students regain ground lost to the pandemic closures, a remedial summer school program,...

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...

Winkler made the announcement at the Board meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 7. The Board appointed Winkler as superintendent on April 24, 2017. His contract is up in June 2021. Winkler served as assistant superintendent under Gena Keller since Aug. 2011. Before announcing his retirement, Winkler read a statement he wrote in support of the FCPS Antiracism and Equity Statement. He said there was no doubt there are racial inequities in the schools and he thanked the task force for the hard work they put into crafting the statement. “It’s a good start. I fully support this statement and will do eve...