City Council will approve the budget for FY2015. 

1 - Matters from the Public  2 - Response to Matters from the Public 3 - Review and Acceptance of the Agenda 4 - Approval of the January 22nd 2014 Meeting Minutes 5 - FFY13 Annual Listing Obligation Report 6 - Current Status of the 2040 LRTP Process 7 - LRTP: Fiscal-Constraint Process 8 - Information Item a ...

Albemarle County Public Schools parents and teachers spoke out in support of the school board’s $164.3 million funding request last week before the Albemarle Board of Supervisors. The division is $5.8 million short of what the school board says it needs. Cale Elementary principal Lisa Jones said ...

Kyle Redinger, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, VividCortex What are you innovating on right now?   We help people manage the most important part of their IT systems, the database server. Companies today face massive growth in data, and the systems people use to manage this data are only getting more ...

Tucked in Charlottesville’s $150 million spending plan for next fiscal year is $317,000 for what’s known as the City Council’s “priority areas.” That spending includes $115,000 for a satellite workforce development center in downtown’s Central Library, $85,000 to hire a new urban planner ...

The sale of properties assessed at $30.5 million brought to an end nearly nine decades of history in what is being described as perhaps the most expensive real estate deal in Charlottesville’s annals. Wade Apartments, a family business in its third and fourth generations of ownership, bowed out ...

Charlottesville taxpayers could kick in $44,500 for public defenders, but a pay gap would remain between those lawyers and the prosecutors they face in court. City Manager Maurice Jones included the extra money in a proposed $150 million spending plan that he’ll present Monday to the City Council.

Nikki Franklin, Kindergarten Teacher, Jackson Via Elementary School   What is the most challenging aspect of your job? My most amazing task is meeting standards (local/state/federal), while still maintaining high expectations, cultivating a nurturing yet individualized classroom and helping students develop a lifelong love of learning.   What’s the ...

The Charlottesville School Board on Thursday night approved its $73 million funding request for the coming fiscal year, 6-1. This year’s spending request is a $2.9 million, or 4.22 percent, over the current operating budget. The spending plan includes a $1.7 million revenue increase from Charlottesville ...

The Charlottesville City School Board Thursday adopted a funding request of $73,213,082—about a four percent jump from last years’ overall budget. Within that total, the Board hopes $45,830,289 million comes from City Council, which represents about a $1.7 million increase from last year’s ...

Legislation to change the state’s funding formula for Charlottesville and Albemarle’s education budgets has failed in Richmond. Known locally as the “Bell Amendment,” for local sponsor and Albemarle Republican Delegate Rob Bell, the budget amendment would have taken into account the two communities’ 1982 revenue sharing agreement when ...

Local public water rates are expected to increase sharply in the next fiscal year, largely to pay for investments in granular-activated carbon filtration systems. During the past week, the boards of the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority and the Albemarle County Service Authority were both briefed on proposals for fiscal year ...

The director of Charlottesville Neighborhood Development Services said this week that he is working to ensure the next design for a Belmont Bridge replacement will better meet community expectations. The city has been working with the firm MMM Design to replace the aging structure, but the company’s first version ...

(This meeting was rescheduled due to a snow storm on February 13, 2014)  1. Update on Work Flow for Subcommittees  2. Update on PLACE Staff Support  3. Subcommittee Reports  4. Urban Design Metrics Discussion  5. Updates on letters of support from PLACE to City Council for Context Sensitive Design, etc ...

Nearly 30 years after the idea was introduced, and about 20 years after development began, officials with the University of Virginia Research Park are more optimistic than ever about the future of the mixed-use community. Located in northern Albemarle County, the 562-acre property is owned and managed by the University ...

As demand for skilled workers grows and people without four-year degrees struggle to find jobs, the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center is working on a plan to prepare students to fill service-sector slots or advance to four-year colleges. Developed over the last few months by consultants from The Bridge, the ...

Trudy Carter, Front Office, Greenbrier Elementary School   How do you support student learning from outside the classroom? When students first enter the office, I try to give them a good start to the day by giving them a friendly smile and a warm welcome. People, including students, associate the school ...

The Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center Board left Tuesday’s strategic plan update with as many questions as answers. While the meeting saw members of Charlottesville-based consultants the Bridge, Ltd. highlight proposed structural changes and roll out an implementation timeline, Board members also grappled with bolstering student interest and ...

Students in Charlottesville-Albemarle are one step closer to taking fewer Standards of Learning exams during their academic careers. House Bill 930, which proposes a 23 percent reduction in the amount of state SOL tests students take between grades three through eight, passed the Virginia House of Delegates last week ...

Georgia-based developer John Dewberry offered the Charlottesville City Council an 11th-hour proposal Tuesday to secure the skeletal Landmark Hotel, an unfinished concrete tower on the Downtown Mall. The council voted, 5-0, to defer a public hearing on whether to declare the structure blighted until Dewberry had time to put the ...

Llezelle Dugger, Clerk of Court, Charlottesville Circuit Court Where were you born (and raised, if different)?   I was born in the Philippines. My parents immigrated to the United States in 1972 because they did not want to raise their child under Martial Law in the Philippines. We moved to San ...

At least this is certain: Projects to alleviate congestion on the signature highway slicing through Charlottesville and Albemarle County would create more jams before relieving them, and the work won’t start anytime soon. The most contentious options face hurdles. Transportation officials have yet to approve construction and funding of ...

The number of traffic tickets issued to bicyclists in the city of Charlottesville has nearly doubled in the last two years. The tickets, the same as those issued for drivers caught in similar violations, can lead to the same penalties and consequences. Local cycling enthusiast Morgan Cruthirds is guilty of ...

A budget bill on its way out of the House of Delegates could bring millions of dollars to Albemarle County schools. That boon, however, could come at a significant cost to their neighbors in the city of Charlottesville. A budget amendment proposed by Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, would change the ...