The Agenda: Local government briefs for 3.15.21
Chesterfield budget proposal includes increased BPOL threshold
Chesterfield County Administrator Joe Casey presented his proposal for the county’s fiscal year 2022 budget last week.
The $806.8 million general fund features $344.7 million in local funding to the school district, as well as $226.8 million in capital improvements that include $19 million for sidewalk upgrades. The proposed general fund for FY22 is an increase of $84.9 million (11.7 percent) compared to the adopted FY21 budget.
The budget would increase the collection threshold for the business and occupation license (BPOL) tax, upping it to $400,000 from $300,000 effective July 1. In doing so, more than 6,400 small- and medium-sized businesses would be exempt from the tax, according to the county.
The Agenda: Local government briefs for 3.8.21
BizSense file)
Mayor proposes $770M budget for FY22
Mayor Levar Stoney presented his administration’s proposed FY22 budget to the Richmond City Council on Friday. The $770.3 million budget is balanced despite municipal revenues projected to be nearly $18.5 million less than revenues in last fiscal year’s proposal.
The proposed budget contains no increases in real estate, personal property or other general taxes. It does include a proposed utility rate increase of $5.27 a month for the average customer. The increase would fund more than $3 million in infrastructure improvements to address flooding in Southside and other parts of the city.
Reworked proposal would add 600-plus homes to Winterpock area
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A site map of the development shows the planned extensions and connection of Harpers Mill and Ashlake parkways. The map is oriented with north pointing to the right. (
Courtesy of Chesterfield County)
A residential development that would add hundreds of homes in Chesterfield’s fast-growing Winterpock area is finally getting its day in front of the county Planning Commission, three years after it was initially proposed.
Homebuilder Schell Brothers, which in 2018 filed plans with the county for more than 500 homes on 218 acres off Winterpock Road, has since expanded the proposal to nearly 670 homes on 250 acres between the Harpers Mill and Collington communities.