By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – There’s little Goodwill in Salem’s proposed 2011-2012 budget.
At a 90-minute work session after the regular Salem City Council meeting May 9, council members decided to axe Goodwill Industries’ request for $10,000 in next year’s proposed $144-million overall budget, and give the agency only $2,000.
Goodwill was one of 44 human and community service...
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By Gwen Johnson
NEW CASTLE – Craig County employees will get a small increase next year, but the county’s residents won’t have to pay more taxes.
For the upcoming fiscal year 2011-2012 Craig County will operate on a $12,566,599- budget. Members of the Craig County Board of Supervisors passed the budget for the next fiscal year at their...
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By Edwin McCoy
Supervisor Larry Ceola agreed he would support a 2 percent pay raise for Botetourt County employees after a two-hour budget committee meeting Wednesday morning in Fincastle.
His decision followed another lengthy budget discussion, this time with the two other budget committee members, Terry Austin and Steve Clinton.
Austin and Clinton are long-time budget committee members who...
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By Edwin McCoy
Botetourt’s two governing bodies got an early primer on a budget year that’s still 10 months away during a Friday morning meeting last week.
The Board of Supervisors and School Board watched a tag-team presentation from the county administration and the school administration as the latter tried to prepare the elected officials for what they...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Over pizza and diet soft drinks, members of Salem City Council whittled away at the proposed 2010-2011 budget Monday night, and tentatively cut more than $100,000 out of community service requests.
Nothing is written in stone – yet – as far as human service and community service agency requests are concerned. Council will...
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By Gwen Johnson
NEW CASTLE – Disposition of the former Taylor Mobile Home Park land bordered by Main Street, Race Street and Market Street in downtown New Castle was discussed by the Craig County Board of Supervisors at the April 15 meeting.
The county purchased the 140-by-160-foot parcel in 2003 as a result of a revitalization grant. Craig...
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By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – There’s one item in the Board of Supervisors’ list of spending recommendations for the 2010-11 budget that hasn’t been there before—at least not listed the way it is this year. It’s not a new category, but it has a new name, one that County Administrator Jerry Burgess now calls “Aid to the...
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By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – Lean. That’s the word County Administrator Jerry Burgess used to describe the 2010-11 fiscal year budget that will be presented during a public hearing April 14.
The Board of Supervisors general fund budget committee is proposing cutting almost $2 million from the county’s general fund expenditures along with the $4 million in cuts...
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By Submitted
At their March 25 meeting, the Roanoke County School Board approved a budget of $128,821,750 for the 2010-2011 school year, a reduction of seven-percent from the 2009-2010 budget.
State funding to Roanoke County Public Schools was reduced by $12.2 million (including $2.1 million of stimulus funding). However, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors helped to...
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By Kristin Adams
ROANOKE COUNTY–The Roanoke County School Board has made its final adjustments to the 2010-2011 school budget, and they are now looking to the future.
“We have got our arms completely around the 2010-2011 budget,” Roanoke County School Board Chairman Mike Stovall said.
The budget was balanced by closings schools, cutting electives, and making scheduling changes in...
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