Botetourt County supervisors on Tuesday approved an increased budget with no tax rate changes â and the board continued on a path to replace its dilapidated courthouse.
The $111.5 million 2021-22 budget represents a 7.2 % increase in both revenues and expenditures and featured no change to the countyâs tax rates, which include $2.71 per $100 of assessed value on personal property, and $0.79 per $100 of assessed value on real estate.
The county schools will receive $65.2 million of what documents show is a balanced budget.
In other board action, the supervisors unanimously approved a set of measures that will allow the county to move forward with replacing its dilapidated courthouse.
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Kurt Schulz has a habit of seeing the diamond in the rough when it comes to old properties.
Thereâs always something that lures him in despite crumbling wiring, collapsing kitchens and rotten chunks of soffit.
That was the case for the Gilliam House, with its 13-foot-tall ceilings and sunlight streaming in the almost equally tall Jeffersonian triple-sashed windows. And then thereâs the unobstructed view of the Hill City behind it.
Rehabilitating a 160-year-old home is not an easy â or cheap â affair, he said.
The Gilliam house at 802 Court Street is a mansion of a duplex; Schulz owns one side of the white-washed brick building with its columned front porch and soffits decorated with dentil molding.