OK! After the presentation of the budget, we’ll be doing a Council budget work session next Wed at 5:30. 2nd floor conference room.
OK! After the presentation of the budget, we’ll be doing a Council budget work session next Wed at 5:30. 2nd floor conference room.
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April 17, 2009 at 6:17 pm
– A public hearing on the council’s proposed budget will be held at 7:30 PM
Monday, April 20th in the Manassas City Council chambers.
– A budget work session, as Andy notes, is on the 22nd.
– The first reading of the FY09-10 budget ordinance is slated for
Monday, April 27th with the second reading on Monday, May 11th.
(This information is also on the city website – in more detail)
April 19, 2009 at 12:23 pm
To Editor Journal-Messenger
An article in a recent Richmond Times-Dispatch by T. Coleman Andrews
should be read by every citizen in Prince William County. Mr. Andrews
cites the catastrophe of the drift to the left all over America and says
that within another decade, if the trend continues, that a man with a
family will have to earn around $20,000 a year to have the necessities
of life.
He further states that the only hope lies in the people literally placing
a fire under the officials and a demand that we turn back to the right.
We people in this country are being led in the same direction, big
government is being forced upon us and we are being taxed to the end
of our endurance. If our leaders refuse to heed our plea, then we
should supplant them in the next election.
It is later than we think.
John R. Clarke
(MJM – 8-21-1958)
April 20, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Andy (and Steve), I thought of something the morning in regards to the budget work sessions and as we go into the home stretch. With work sessions being at 5:30 and many cannot make them, and for those of us following the budget process, as you have each session what would have been helpful is a running spreadsheet or summary sheet of the sessions showing how things are moving around as you got closer to what Marc presented last Monday.
For me, I can follow the newspapers and the minutes and make educated guesses. My long years as a military comptroller helps me sort it out. Still, the level of detail might be helpful in at least encouring more public comment as the folks could see how y’all are working diligently.
I’ll be making the same comments tonight at the public hearing….and overall am quite pleased with the hard work of the Council and City Staff.
April 20, 2009 at 3:07 pm
“The bottom line is that the state simply does not provide
adequate support for the current set of standards of learning
and standards of accreditation much less for higher ones.
Virginia ranks 33rd in the nation in terms of STATE support for
public education … In contrast, the state ranks 14th in terms of
LOCAL funding of K-12 education. The most recent data show that
local governments pay 48.6 percent of the operating cost for
education, with the state paying 44.7 and the federal government
paying the remaining 6.7 percent. Local governments also pay
the lion’s share of capital cost … the state leaves the major funding
to beleagured local real estate taxpayers.”
Virginia Town and City Magazine
(March 2009)
April 21, 2009 at 6:30 am
@Steve:
I wish the local number was higher with a corresponding decrease in my state taxes. At least then I have some influence into his my money is spent locally. As it is now, my money goes to Richmond and from there we citizens have little influence. So we are paying for not only our schools but schools all across the state. The people who wrote that DO understand that state money IS our money too I hope.
April 21, 2009 at 9:33 am
DavidB,
My issue is that state and federal legislators have figured out
how to have their cake and eat it too – pass mandates, standards
and regulations to claim they have “done something about (fill in
the blank)”, but leave the funding to local government to avoid
the wrath of taxpayers at Richmond or Washington. This has
led to more power at the state and federal level, but more cost
and less control at the municipal and county level.
Like you, I think that the best government is the one closest
to the citizens and it shouldn’t be undermined by unfunded mandates.