Well, August is over and we’re back to it.  We had a budget retreat last Friday, I had a Historic Resources meeting last night and a Finance meeting tonight.  Judging from what I saw at the budget retreat and tonight at the finance meeting, the budget will be a repeat of last year.

The main variable in the budget picture is what the Governor does to the state budget.  I’ve heard that (he) they are kicking around a bunch of different options, none of which is going to be any fun for the City and even less fun for the schools.  One interesting item I’ve heard is that they are considering getting rid of all or some of the car tax relief.  That’ll be fun…anyways, I expect we are going to have to make cuts to our City budget in the near future.

We should hear more concrete information from Richmond in the next couple of days so stay tuned.