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The majority of Arlington homeowners will face higher property taxes, after the County Board approved a budget that holds the property tax rate steady.
The Fiscal Year 2022 budget includes $1.4 billion in spending, a 3.5% increase from last year’s budget. Of that, $530 million will go to Arlington Public Schools, which will pass its final budget next month.
Earlier this year County Manager Mark Schwartz proposed a budget that would have only boosted spending by 1.4%, calling it a “transition budget” appropriate for the challenges presented by the pandemic.
The new county budget includes millions in additional expenditures, thanks to higher-than-expected business tax revenue and an expected $46 million in federal funding for Arlington’s local COVID-19 response from the American Rescue Plan, to be split between this year’s and next year’s budgets.
New trial date set in shooting death of UK student
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â A new trial date has been set six years after University of Kentucky student Jonathan Krueger was shot and killed while he was walking home with a friend.
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In a Zoom court hearing Wednesday, it was set for April 4th, 2022. The trial should take about nine days.
Justin Delone Smith, Roman Gonzalez, and Efrain Diaz, Jr. were all charged with murder and first-degree robbery. Smith is also charged with tampering with evidence and first-degree fleeing or evading police.
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Richmond City Hall. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
Richmond City Council members are proposing various amendments to the 2022 budget, from salary bumps for police and firefighters to funding for a city-wide financial audit.
The proposed amendments would be attached to a bare-bones $770 million budget proposed by Mayor Levar Stoney in March. Because of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on local tax revenue, Stoney’s proposed 2022 budget includes little new spending or projects. Still, some members of Richmond City Council want to move money around to free up funding for various initiatives.
Three members Council President Cynthia Newbille, Vice President Ellen Robertson and Reva Trammell are proposing salary increases for police and firefighters, costing between $1.9 and $4 million.
Simon & Schuster says it wonât distribute book by Louisville officer in deadly Breonna Taylor raid Louisville Metro :Police Department Sgt. Jon Mattingly, the officer who led the deadly March 13, 2020 narcotics raid on Breonna Taylorâs apartment. (Source: Louisville Metro Police Department) By Jennifer Edwards Baker | April 16, 2021 at 6:38 AM EDT - Updated April 16 at 6:39 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (FOX19) - Simon & Schuster says in a statement it wonât be involved in the distribution of a book by one of the Louisville, Ky., police officers connected to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor during a raid.
âLike much of the American Public earlier today, Simon & Schuster learned of plans by distribution client Post Hill Press to publish a book by Jonathan Mattingly. We have subsequently decided not to be involved in the distribution of this book.â