The City is working on a longer term plan, but shelter staff say they see more immediate need than ever.
Category: Government and public institutions
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Posted inWork/Life
Albemarle County School Board to vote on collective bargaining resolution at Thursday night’s meeting
The vote comes after two and a half years of campaigning for collective bargaining from the Albemarle Education Association.
Posted inHow we learn
Charlottesville area’s only free Head Start program closed suddenly, leaving nearly 200 families without childcare
The decision was in the making since October, but parents weren’t notified until March 5.
Posted inHow we learn
Come July 1, Agnor-Hurt Elementary School will be Agnor Elementary School
Benjamin Franklin Hurt was a former Albemarle County Public Schools administrator who supported performances with students in blackface, Confederate flags and swastikas.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Here’s everything you need to know about running for local office in Virginia
We help you navigate the multiple deadlines, stacks of forms and varied instructions to become a candidate.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
In a scathing rebuttal, Charlottesville attorneys say plaintiffs ‘concocted technical faults’ in their lawsuit seeking to overthrow the new zoning ordinance
“The Plaintiffs already have that which they now seek to deny others — good, affordable housing in a desirable locality,” the city wrote. “To do so, the Plaintiffs, having lost at City Council and at the ballot box, seek a judicial veto of the City’s zoning ordinance changes.”
Posted inOur neighborhoods
More than 1,000 gather to press county supervisors to invest — heavily — in affordable housing
“For people of all ages to have a stake, to have a place to rent or to own, is absolutely astonishingly challenging,” County Supervisor Ann Mallek said. “Albemarle County needs to up our game.”
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Charlottesville residents join lawmakers in asking Gov. Youngkin to sign flurry of tenants rights bills
“If he hears from people all over the state, maybe he’ll listen,” said former Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
City Council grapples with how to handle additional $9 million funding request from Charlottesville City Schools
Officials consider a ‘significant’ local tax increase to cover it.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
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