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The Fredericksburg City Council approved a special-use permit for Brompton to operate a private elementary school. The campus will be situated at Braehead Manor, a former bed and breakfast at Spotsylvania National Military Park, at 123 Lee Drive, at Lee’s Hill in Fredericksburg.
The special permit allows the Brompton School to operate out of the manor as an educational zoning group despite being in a regular residential area.
To operate with the special permit, Brompton will have to comply with several building codes for schools. The owners must make interior improvements like installing exit signs and a better heating and air conditioning system.
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The Fredericksburg City Council recently held a public hearing regarding a request for a special use permit to allow the Brompton Community School to open a new elementary school at the former bed and breakfast site.
Brompton proposes a private school that would teach kindergarten through eighth grade at Braehead Manor, at 123 Lee Drive, at Lee’s Hill, part of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The school would have 116 students and staff.
The manor, which last used as bed and breakfast in 2018 and has been on the Real Estate market ever since, would have to undergo some interior improvements such as installing exit signs, lighting, improvements to the heating system, and improving persons’
BY TAFT COGHILL JR.
The Free Lance-Star
Since late spring, a group of Fredericksburg protesters have requested the city âdefund the police,â or redirect resources to crime prevention rather than law enforcement.
City Council has taken the opposite approach.
Members voted unanimously Tuesday night to amend the budget to provide additional resources to law enforcement and court security personnel.
The amendment provides all sworn law enforcement, communications and sheriff personnel a $3,500 increase in annual salary.
The starting pay for a new officer will go from $46,518 to $50,018.
City Manager Tim Baroody has also been directed to include a proposal in next yearâs recommended budget to increase the allowances for post-retirement health insurance benefits for public safety personnel.