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Description
Chesterfield County hosted this virtual and in-person community meeting to review the FY23 proposed budget with the Board of Supervisors and county budget administrators. Bermuda District Supervisor Jim Ingle was joined by County Administrator Dr. Joe Casey, Deputy County Administrator for Finance and Administration Matt Harris for this presentation.
A
Of
course,
we're
welcoming
people
to
come
in
person
here
in
the
public
meeting
room
we're
also
hosting
this
meeting
virtually
through
facebook
live
just
want
to
mention.
After
we
have
a
presentation
tonight,
we're
going
to
open
it
up
for
q
a,
and
I
would
ask
that
anybody
who
is
here
in
person
please
step
to
the
same
mic
that
I'm
at
right
now
that
way
everybody
who's
tuning
in
from
home,
and
also
everybody
in
this
room
can
hear.
A
Clearly
your
comments
and
your
questions,
which
these
fine
gentlemen
up
front,
will
will
certainly
do
their
best
to
answer.
This
meeting
is
also
being
live
streamed
on
the
county's
youtube
channel,
as
well
as
on
chesterfield
county
television
on
verizon,
channel
98,
and
excuse
me
comcast,
channel
98,
verizon
channel
28.
A
in
the
back
of
the
room
by
the
main
entrance.
There
are
some
sign
in
sheets.
We
would
appreciate
anybody
providing
their
name
and
contact
information.
A
simple
email
will
do
it
is
optional,
but
if
you
provide
us
that
we
can
stay
in
touch
with
you
and
make
sure
that
you
receive
future
information
about
these
types
of
meetings
and
many
other
things,
but
without
that
I'm
going
to
introduce
our
guest.
Excuse
me
our
host
tonight,
that
is
the
honorable
jim
engel
who
of
course,
of
course,
is
our
supervisor
for
the
bermuda
magistral
district.
Mr
engel
thank.
B
Tonight's
meeting
is
one
way
in
which
citizens
may
provide
input
and
ask
questions
about
the
proposed
fy
23
budget,
while
providing
us
board
members
an
opportunity
to
engage
with
you
on
the
plan,
as
dave
mentioned
a
moment
ago.
In
addition,
in
addition
to
those
who
have
joined
us
here
in
person,
we
have
a
virtual
audience
as
well,
no
matter
how
you
are
participating.
B
B
In
a
moment,
mr
harris
is
going
to
run
through
a
brief
presentation
on
the
budget
and
then
we'll
work
to
answer
your
questions.
Tonight's
meeting
is
only
one
of
the
ways
to
engage
with
chest
field.
On
the
proposed
budget,
I
and
my
fellow
board
members
are
scheduled
to
hold
a
public
hearing
on
march
23rd
and
prior
to
adopting
a
balanced
budget
in
april.
B
Where
you're
also
able
to
submit
your
questions
and
comments,
this
year's
proposed
budget
represents
chestfield's
efforts
to
balance
goals,
with
significant
measures
to
reduce
higher
tax
bills
for
citizens,
resulting
in
an
incredibly
robust
housing
market
that
has
driven
up
as
assessments,
supply
and
demand.
Challenges
have
also
increased
vehicle
values
in
a
similar
manner.
B
B
B
Chair,
I'm,
sorry,
chestfield,
county
school
board,
chair
and
school
is,
of
course,
our
heart
of
are
a
huge
importance
in
terms
of
how
we
invest
in
the
community,
and
we
appreciate
miss
coker's
time
this
evening
again,
I
thank
everyone
for
joining
us
for
this
discussion
and
I
encourage
you
to
remain
engaged
as
chestfield
continues
to
navigate
the
annual
budget
process.
Thank
you.
C
Well,
thank
you
all
for
being
here.
As
mr
engle
says,
my
name
is
matt
harris
the
deputy
county,
mr
over
the
the
finance
functions,
I'm
going
to
walk
you
through
a
brief
presentation.
Tonight,
I'm
not
going
to
get
into
you
know
deep
into
the
details.
We've
been
discussing
this
budget
in
this
room
with
the
board
of
supervisors
really
since
november
december
time
frame,
we
did
in-depth
work
sessions
in
february
and,
most
recently,
on
march
9th.
As
mr
engel
mentioned,
the
public
hearing
is
the
23rd,
and
then
we
adopt
this
budget
on
april
6..
C
So
the
the
timing
of
these
community
meetings
is
really
good,
because
there's
still
it's
an
open
process
and
really
truly
what's
happened.
The
county
administrators
sitting
to
my
far
left
has
presented
this
budget
to
the
board
and
they
are
receiving
it
along
with
all
of
your
feedback
and
commentary.
C
C
C
The
pressure
to
find
and
hold
on
to
talented
workers
is
really
at
an
all-time
high.
It
doesn't
matter
what
industry
you're
in
and
local
government
is
no
different
from
that,
and
we
will
talk
about
some
specific
examples,
but
this
budget
is
really
on
the
county
in
school
sides,
very
light
on
new
initiatives,
new
programs,
new
bodies,
it's
really
intended,
first
and
foremost,
to
be
able
to
take
care
of
and
retain
the
talented
workforce
that
we
already
have
that
provide
the
programs
and
services
every
day
that
make
chesterfield.
C
You
know
part
of
the
special
place
that
it
is.
Secondly,
the
referendum
you
see
on
the
screen
of
540
million,
that's
the
bricks
and
mortar
part
of
us.
If
you
think
of
the
first
piece
I
just
talked
about,
is
kind
of
the
people
part
of
our
business,
making
sure
that
we
can
retain
them.
We
also
have
to
be
attentive
to
the
facilities
that
it
requires
to
provide
all
the
programs
and
services
in
chesterfield
county
referendum
is
nothing
more
than
a
ballot
initiative.
It's
scheduled
to
be
on
the
ballot
this
november,
you
vote
on
it.
C
Just
like
you
would
a
candidate
for
office
and
in
total
we
are
proposing
a
540
million
referendum,
that's
inclusive
again
of
county
and
school
projects,
we'll
talk
about
a
little
breakdown
of
that,
but
that's
the
largest
referendum
in
the
county's
history
and
it's
vital
to
make
sure
we
can
continue
to
serve
the
new
and
emerging
areas
of
the
county
and
also
provide
you
know,
parity
facility
parity
in
in
some
of
the
older
areas
of
the
county.
And
lastly,
you
know
there's
a
lot
of.
C
I
don't
know
what
it
is
about
late
february
and
early
march,
but
there's
always
something
that
emerges
during
budget
process
that
you
know
makes
it
a
bit
of
a
challenging
backdrop
to
to
produce
a
budget
to
propose
a
budget
and
then
certainly
for
all
of
you
to
sort
of
sit
down
on
your
kitchen
tables
and
figure
out
how
you're
going
to
balance
your
own
household
budgets
this
year,
we've
got,
you
know:
inflation
reaching
all-time
highs,
at
least
in
you
know,
sort
of
modern
history.
We've
got
geopolitical
unrest
spanning
across
the
globe.
C
C
So,
let's
start
with
that,
and
I
think
as
you'll
see
in
this
slide,
it's
a
you
know.
It
looks
like
a
bit
of
an
eye
chart,
but
you
know
there's
a
number
of
ways
that
we
get
revenue
as
a
local
government
and
that's
defined
for
us.
We
don't
necessarily
get
to
pick
what
that
is,
but
home
prices
and
vehicle
prices
are
really
the
two
main
drivers
for
how
much
revenue
we
have
on
an
annual
basis,
the
housing
market's
pretty
clear-cut.
C
I
think
everybody
either
has
sold
a
house
knows
someone
who
sold
a
house
had
a
neighbor
who
sold
a
house
and
you've
seen
the
interest
that
you
know
has
come
along
with
that.
The
number
of
showings
how
quickly
those
go
and
so
home
prices
in
chesterfield
county
had
a
very
strong
year
as
they
did
throughout
the
region.
Again,
we
don't
set
those
prices.
C
C
That
being
said
in
full
disclosure,
we're
not
standing
up
here,
and
mr
engel
certainly
was
clear
in
his
commentary,
tax
bills
are
still
going
up.
This
is
about
you
know,
moderating
those
increases
in
the
real
estate
bill
so
that
we
keep
those
increases
in
something.
That's
you
know
what
we
feel
is
is
sustainable
in
the
long
term,
not
recognizing
all
of
the
growth
that
has
occurred
overall.
That
three
cent
reduction
is
about
a
15
million
dollars
of
overall
tax
relief
for
the
upcoming
year.
C
I
would
skip
down
to
the
third
one
because
that's
the
second
biggest
part
of
this
vehicle
values.
You
know
it's
a
bit
of
a
topsy-turvy
world,
I
think
from
the
supply
chain,
issues
that
we
I
mean.
I
think
none
of
us
have
ever
said
supply
chain
as
many
times
as
we
have
in
the
last
six
months
and
we've
had
to
learn
exactly
what
that
is,
but
that
caused
incredible
pressure
on
car
prices.
C
C
That
goes
all
the
way
back
to
the
jim
gilmore
administration
back
in
the
late
90s
bottom
line
is
they're
going
to
raise
the
relief
percentage
on
your
bill,
so
whatever
your
bill
turns
out
to
be
from
that
national
database
is
going
to
be
relieved
and
let
this
curse
past
year
from
46
percent
up
to
55
percent,
that's
another
15
million
dollars
of
tax
relief,
elderly
and
disabled.
You
know
we
have
to
really
be
mindful
of
those
that
are
on
a
fixed
income.
C
The
board
back
in
december,
increased
all
of
those
tables
by
six
percent
to
really
keep
up
with
the
social
security
increases
so
that
they're
not
penalized
for
additional
income
that
comes
through
that
that
program,
the
b
poll
tax
relief.
This
is
really
aimed
at
small
business.
So
we
raise
the
threshold.
So
you
you
pay
a
business
tax.
Essentially,
if
your
gross
receipts
exceed
a
certain
threshold,
the
board
controls.
C
What
that
threshold
is
they've
raised
it
from
300
to
400
thousand
dollars,
meaning
that
anybody
over
that
pays
on
the
rate
schedule,
if
you're
less
than
that,
you
just
pay
a
flat
fee
with
this
increase
here
to
400
000,
and
we
have
two-thirds
of
small
businesses
of
overall
businesses,
but
predominantly
small
businesses
that
don't
pay
a
b-pull
tax
so
really
being
mindful
of
our
small
businesses
and
then.
Lastly,
the
vehicle
registration
fee
was
increased.
C
That's
a
component
of
your
property
tax
bill
that
was
increased
from
20
to
40
a
number
of
years
ago
to
fund
roads.
Since
then,
we've
had
other
methods
that
have
been
made
available
to
us,
and
so,
as
we
have
done
over
time,
we
are
giving
that
back
going
from
the
40
back
to
the
20..
That's,
as
you
see
a
one
and
a
half
cent,
you
know
equivalency
on
the
real
estate
rate
about
seven
and
a
half
eight
million
dollars
of
relief.
C
C
People
want
to
come
here,
home
values
have
gone
up,
and
so
we
have
been
able
over
time
consistently
regardless
of
the
board,
regardless
of
the
county
administrator,
even
have
been
able
to
reduce
this
rate.
That's
just
part
of
our
dna
to
again
find
that
balance,
and
so
another
two
cent
reduction,
the
largest
one
since
2007.
C
personal
property
tax
relief.
Again
we
talked
about
this.
You
see
those
relief
percentages.
The
way
that's
set
up
just
real
quickly
when
it
started
the
program
started
in
the
late
90s.
It
was
aimed
to
be
about
100
percent
of
car
tax
relief.
The
state
has
not
put
any
additional
funds
into
that,
meaning
the
release
relief
percentage
dwindles
over
time.
C
This
is
the
first
time
we
have
raised
that
percentage
and
I'm
not
aware
of
anybody
else
actually
in
the
state
that
has
taken
this
measure,
but
that's
another
15
million
dollars
of
of
relief,
and
you
see
also
they're
a
much
smaller
note,
but
those
folks
that
are
on
a
you
know:
fixed
income
or
maybe
a
lower
income
household.
If
you
have
a
vehicle,
that's
fifteen
hundred
dollars
or
less
that
tax
bill
doesn't
even
show
up.
So
we've
raised
that
minimum
threshold
as
well
as
part
of
this.
C
So
what
is
the
overall
budget
made
up
of
and
we're
talking,
we
say,
general
fund-
that's
just
our
term
for
the
overall
county
budget,
which
includes
a
portion
of
the
school
budget.
The
rest
of
the
school
budget
comes
directly
from
from
the
governor
and
friends,
but
we
fund
a
portion
of
that.
So
this
shows
how
does
our
overall
the
budget
we're
talking
about
tonight?
How
is
it
invested
overall?
C
This
is,
I
think,
a
nice
chart
that
just
kind
of
does
that
in
a
spatial
manner-
and
you
can
see
schools
consistently
over
a
number
of
years
has
been
right
in
that
40
to
41
percent
range,
our
next
biggest
block
there
and
sort
of
the
gold
color
public
safety,
and
then
the
navy,
blue
at
9.2
and
capital
or
infrastructure,
and
again
that's
the
physical
plant.
That's
the
infrastructure,
the
facilities
that
it
takes
to
run
the
organization,
so
all
in
all,
75
cents,
more
or
less
out
of
every
dollar
goes
into
schools,
public
safety
and
infrastructure.
C
Those
are
the
building
blocks
of
local
government,
at
least
they
should
be.
We
take
that
seriously
and
that's
where
we
you
know.
That's
every
budget
is
built
around
those
priorities,
we're
able
to
put
so
much
money
in
those
areas,
because
you
see
sort
of
that
mustardy
color,
the
general
government
block
at
six
cents
on
every
dollar.
You
know
that's
I.t,
legal
finance,
purchasing,
all
the
other
stuff,
all
the
support
stuff
behind
the
scenes.
C
So
where
is
this
budget
growing?
You
know
same
kind
of
concept,
but
this
the
last
one
is
looking
at
sort
of
total
dollars.
This
is
looking
at
increased
dollars
again
that
gold
color
investing
in
the
workforce
and
we'll
talk
more
details
about
that
in
a
second,
that's
the
predominant
theme
here
on
the
county
and
the
school
side,
the
blue
bar
infrastructure
and
facilities
at
33
million.
C
C
Both
boards
came
together
with
some
savings.
On
the
county
side,
we
were
able
to
get
that
off
of
the
books,
which
is
a
really
big
deal
really
big
day,
and
so
that
created
10
million
dollars
of
expense
capacity,
so
there's
18
million
dollars
of
new
revenue
dollars
and
10
million
dollars
of
new
expense
capacity
dollars
on
the
school
side.
That's
a
28
million
dollar
investment
effectively
from
the
board
of
supervisors
in
the
school
division.
That's
the
largest
by
far
nowhere
close
in
terms
of
investment
in
the
in
the
school
system.
C
As
part
of
this
budget
employee
compensation.
Again,
I
won't
go
into
all
these
pieces
and
parts,
but
we
are
taking
a
multi-piece
multi-year
plan
to
try
to
shore
up
our
workforce.
We
have
a
lot
of
facilities.
You
know
we
have
some
capital,
we
have
police
cars
and
fire
trucks,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
local
government,
whether
it's
school
division
or
whether
the
general
government
we're
a
people
business
and
we
have
to
invest
in
that
area.
C
C
We
have
a
lot
of
positions
that
aren't
even
at
the
12
mark.
You
know
some
of
our
custodians.
A
lot
of
our
you
know:
front
line
people,
so
this
budget
on
the
county
side
is
looking
at
a
two-year
plan
to
increase
that,
ultimately
to
16
we're
competing
with
a
lot
of
folks.
Now
that
we
weren't
normally
competing
against,
I
mean
everybody
understood
you
go
out
to
eat.
You
understand
the
labor
market
shortages
that
we're
facing.
I
was
just
with
the
economic
development
director
today
and
he
said
the
last
county.
C
He
had
there's
7
000
job
postings,
just
in
chesterfield
county,
the
last
time
that
he
took
that
measure
so
and
we
have
particularly
on
the
general
government
side,
but
also
on
the
school
division
side
we're
competing
in
a
lot
of
those
same
categories.
So
we
have
to
invest
in
the
workforce.
That's
why
you
saw
that
largest
block
on
the
previous
slide.
C
But
roughly
a
third
of
that
number
is
going
just
into
paying
contract
costs
that
have
gone
up.
So
just
a
bare
minimum
of
maintaining
a
service
level.
You
know
cpi,
six,
seven,
eight
percent,
depending
on
how
you
wanna
measure
it
is,
you
know,
is
a
very,
very
large
number
and
we
have
a
lot
of
contracts
that
are
tied
to
that.
We
have
to
pay
those
those
monies.
C
A
best
example
of
this
is
in
the
fire
department
again
making
sure
that
we're
being
mindful
of
what's
needed
there.
We
have
a
minimum
staffing
level
in
the
county
every
single
day.
We
have
to
have
a
certain
number
of
folks
if
I
don't
have
in
my
accounting
department,
if
I've
got
five
people
that
are
out
for
vacation
or
whatever
we
can
power
through
that
for
a
few
days
and
the
fire
department
can't
do
that.
C
C
C
That
being
said,
you
know
we
we
recognize
trying
to
find
that,
like
I
said
always,
so
we
always
always
talk
about
that
balance
between
being
mindful
of
the
taxpayer
and
being
mindful
of
needs
of
the
organization.
I'm
not
gonna
go
through
all
of
this,
but
you
can
see
there.
We
get
many
many
many
requests
that
come
in
through
a
budget
process
from
our
departments
from
the
community
from
board
members
whomever
wherever
they
may
originate
from,
we
fund
a
small
portion
of
those
and
just
because
there's
revenue,
that's
possible.
C
C
You
know
another
key
thing:
we've
touched
on
this
a
little
bit,
there's
a
lot
of
uncertainty.
This
budget
is
built
around
making
sure
that
if
things
get
worse,
you
know
they're
fed
hiked
interest
rates
today
you
know
we
built
our
referendum.
We
have
to
build
it
in
at
a
much
higher
interest
rate.
We,
you
know
we
do
things
like
our
merit
adjustment.
Our
annual
merit
adjustment,
which
is
kind
of
that
cost
of
living
effectively
on
the
county
side.
We
push
that
back
to
february
if
economic
conditions
don't
hold
up.
C
This
is
just
you
know.
This
is
not
an
end-all
be-all,
but
we
want
to
again
be
mindful
of
how
is
spending
growing
over
time.
This
is
real
spending,
so
what
I
mean
by
that's
inflation
adjusted
and
it's
on
a
per
capita
basis.
This
one
general
government
side,
the
the
orange
dotted
line,
represents
fyo9
that
was
sort
of
our
previous
high
water
mark
before
the
great
recession,
and
you
see
coming
out
of
the
great
recession.
C
School
division
chart
similar
pattern
overall,
not
back
to
that
09
level.
I
think
because
of
you
know,
some
investment
from
the
state
and
some
healthy
investment
from
the
locals
you've
seen
an
upward
trajectory
of
this
investment
on
a
per
student
basis.
This
is
just
actually.
This
is
just
local
dollars.
You
see
bottoms
out
there
in
14
coming
out
of
the
great
recession
and
it's
come
up
pretty
steadily
since
that
point.
C
Speaking
of
the
school
division-
and
you
know-
I
know
our
school
friends
are
aware
of
this,
but
you
know
the
media
in
particular
seems
to
glom
on
to
the
18
million
dollar
increase
in
the
general
fund,
support
for
the
school
division
and
not
recognizing
all
of
the
ways
that
the
board
supervisors
and
school
board
work
together
to
take
care
of
the
whole
host
of
needs
that
the
school
division
has.
So
it
is
the
base
transfer
going
up
by
18
million
dollars.
That's
what
comes
from
your
local
taxes.
C
We
support
schools
in
any
number
of
ways
and
I
think
that
just
kind
of
gets
you
know
lost
in
the
mix.
The
media
tends
to
glom
on
to
the
18
million
dollars,
but-
and
we
can
go
on-
there's
probably
another
page
that
I
could
put
together
for
ways
that
we
support
the
school
division,
but
just
wanted
to
point
that
out.
It's
not
as
simple
as
the
18
million
it's
a
much
more
nuanced
relationship
between
the
two
boards
and
it
has
worked
well,
particularly
over
the
last
several
years.
C
The
referendum,
like
I
mentioned
this-
is
a
ballot
initiative.
That's
scheduled
for
november
of
this
year.
We've
been
working
on
this
for
a
couple
of
years
got
a
little
bit
of
a
slow
start
because
of
kovid
540
million
dollars
on
the
county
side,
four
major
categories,
fire
stations,
police,
precincts,
quality
of
life
items
such
as
parks
and
libraries,
and
then
schools
on
the
other
side
of
schools.
At
375
million
of
the
540
million
dollar.
Total
you're
gonna
hear
a
lot
more
about
this.
C
I
won't
dwell
on
it
tonight
because
we're
going
to
be
spending
you'll,
be
back
in
here
this
summer
and
we'll
be
anywhere
that
you
sit
down
to
have
dinner,
or
you
know,
civic
club
or
church
group
we're
going
to
try
to
be
in
there
and
educate
folks
on
this.
540
is
a
big
number.
It's
the
largest
referendum
we've
ever
had.
The
good
news
is
because
of
the
way
that
we
sell
and
manage
and
structure
our
debt.
This
does
not
require
an
additional
funding
source
to
execute
this
referendum.
C
We
paid
that
off
very,
very
aggressively.
So,
as
those
tranches
come
off
every
single
year,
we
can
essentially
replace
them
with
new
bonds
and
keep
that
debt
service
curve
very
level
over
time
that
doesn't
take
away
from
operational
items
in
the
classroom
or
on
the
front
lines
for
a
public
safety
agency,
but
we
can
be
attentive
to
what
are
some
pretty
significant
facility
needs
throughout
the
community
referendum
timeline
again
we'll
the
board
will
approve
this
plan.
C
We
actually
have
to
petition
the
court
to
put
it
on
the
ballot
and
then
probably
late
summer,
into
early
fall,
we'll
be
out
in
the
community.
Really
selling
the
the
all
the
projects
in
here
answering
questions
and
going
through
that
whole
piece
if
you've
lived
in
chesterfield
for
a
while,
you
remember
this
process.
We
did
it
last
in
in
2013.
C
Utility
rates,
you
know
we
have
to
be
mine.
If
there's
any
number
of
ways
that
you
know
you
interact
with
chesterfield
county,
you
see
here
about
less
than
a
3
percent
increase
in
our
proposed
overall
bi-monthly
utility
bill
in
chesterfield
county,
and
you
see
how
we
compare
against
our
surrounding
localities,
so
tax
rate
that
real
estate
tax
rate
again
the
simplistic
nature
of
the
media.
C
Unfortunately,
they
tend
to
glom
onto
that
top
line,
that
largest
font,
but
when
you
put
it
all
into
the
the
mixing
bowl
at
the
end
of
the
day,
it
all
hits
your
checkbook.
It
all
hits
your
bottom
line
and
we're
attentive
to
every
single
portion
of
that,
so
an
increase
in
utility,
but
below
the
rate
of
inflation
and
far
beyond
what
our
peer
rates
throughout
the
region.
C
With
that
being
said,
just
a
little
reminder
of
where
we
are
we're
in
the
middle
of
that
community
meeting
calendar,
we
have
two
more
monday,
tuesday
night
and
then
the
public
hearing
is
march.
23Rd
there's
plenty
of
time
to
to
get
in
touch
with
your
board
member
ask
questions
of
staff,
and
we've
got
a
lot
of
good
budget
staff
here
in
the
room
tonight
to
answer
questions
and
then
blueprintchestful.gov
that
is
up
365
days
a
year.
If
you
have
a
question
comment,
you
don't
want
to
call
or
come
out
to
meeting
can't.
C
D
D
Yeah
yeah
yeah,
maybe
we'll
drive
back
together,
yeah
ben
pearson,
nelson,
I'm
president
of
the
chesterfield
county
council,
parent
teacher
associations,
I'm
here
on
behalf
of
that
organization.
We
have
about
8
000
members
in
chesterfield
county
right
now
as
part
of
our
effort,
you'll
notice,
there's
not
not
a
lot
of
citizens
in
here
tonight.
A
lot
of
our
parents
and
teachers
are
working
and
have
kids,
and
so
it's
very
difficult
for
them
to
come
to
public
meetings.
D
We
did
vote
our
organization
voted
to
fully
support
the
superintendent's
budget,
the
needs-based
budget.
I
think
it's
it's
incredibly
important
to
point
out
this.
This
is
a
needs-based
budget.
This
is
a
budget
that
keeps
schools
alive
right.
It
keeps
the
lights
on.
It
doesn't
enhance
the
kind
of
learning
that
we're
looking
for
in
terms
of
your
parent
or
your
teacher,
and
so
we
did
vote
to
support
it
because
we
want
to
make
sure
our
schools
are
getting
the
funding
they
need.
D
I'm
I'm
trying
to
move
that
marker.
I
don't
want
to
be,
and
parents
don't
want
to
be
in
last
place.
We
don't
want
our
kids
in
last
place.
I
looked
at
recent
census
data
and
it
turns
out
that
we're
now
behind
the
state
of
alabama
for
per
capita
funding
of
our
students
and
and
to
me
that
that's
a
terrible
fact
we're
just
ahead
of
mississippi
the
poorest
state
in
the
united
states
and
and
our
median
income
is
three
times
those
states.
So
that's,
that's.
That's
not
good!
D
Our
schools
are
in
trouble
like
I'm
in
schools
every
day
talking
to
teachers
talking
to
principals,
and
I
encourage
you
to
do
that
if
you're
not
doing
that,
please
reach
out
to
your
principals,
please
reach
out
to
your
teachers,
we're
we're
bleeding
teachers
like
we
we're
200
teachers
short
right
now,
and
I
know
that
you
know
we
talked
about
the
it's
a
problem
across
the
country
right,
but
we're
competing
directly
with
henrico.
I
mean
we're
competing
directly
with
other
localities.
D
D
D
Now,
that's
a
lot
of
people
who
want
to
fund
schools,
and
I
think
we
need
to
move
past
this
sort
of
notion
that
people
don't
have
kids
in
schools,
don't
care
about
schools,
because
I've
asked
them
and
a
lot
of
their
grandparents
a
lot
more
retired
teachers.
A
lot
of
them
want
their
property
values
to
stay
high
and
that's
all
dependent
upon
schools.
D
All
of
us
shop
schools.
First,
we
shop
real
estate,
so
we
have
to
keep
our
schools
funded.
So
what
I'd
like
to
ask
is
that
you
advocate
for
us.
You
advocate
for
our
children.
You
advocate
for
our
teachers.
You
advocate
for
our
principles
and
and
thank
you
for
having
this
forum.
I
meant
this
public
feedback.
I
think
I'm
very
appreciative
you
guys
are
open.
D
We
all
want
our
teachers
and
we're
going
to
need
a
significant
just
like
for
firefighters
or
police
officers
or
sheriff's
deputies.
We
need
a
significant
increase
beyond
a
needs-based
budget,
so
I'm
just
I
just
please
keep
that
in
mind.
Thank
you
for
for
having
this
forum.
I
appreciate
it
and
it's
good
to
see
you
honestly
I'll,
see
you
in
the
walk.
F
F
Before
I
share
a
couple
of
data
points,
mr
harris,
I
just
had
a
question
just
to
clarify
so
on
one
of
the
slides.
It
said
that
there's
a
35.6
million
dollar
investment
in
the
workforce
and
then
also
on
another
portion.
It
says
the
28.8
million
transfer
to
schools,
which
category
do
does
the
investment
in
school
workforce
fall
under
in
that
breakdown.
C
F
For
sure,
thank
you
so
much
for
clarifying
that,
and
so
I
wanted
to
share
a
couple
of
data
points
that
I
got
from
the
virginia
department
of
education's
2020
2021
teacher
salary
survey.
It
was
published
in
january
of
2022,
so
it
is
fairly
recent
data
for
teacher
salary.
In
comparison
I
compared
chesterfield
henrico
and
virginia.
I
pulled
the
data
from
that
survey.
Budgeted
for
fiscal
year.
2022.
F
chesterfield
is
at
an
average
of
hundred
52
dollars.
Henrico
is
at
fifty
six
thousand
hundred
ninety
dollars
and
the
virginia
state
average
for
teachers.
Salary
is
sixty
two
thousand
one
hundred
and
one
dollars,
and
so
ultimately,
what
that
means
is
that
budgeted
for
this
year
already
we're
at
four
thousand
dollars
less
than
henrico
and
almost
ten
thousand
dollars
less
than
the
state
average.
F
On
top
of
that,
if
we
look
at
our
assistant
principal
salaries,
which
we
know
that
our
assistant
principals
are
instrumental
in
supporting
our
instructional
staff,
basically
we
are
at
two
thousand
dollars
more
than
henrico
at
an
average
which
is
exciting,
but
we
are
still
over
thirteen
thousand
dollars
less
than
the
state
average
for
the
salary
of
an
assistant
principal
and
then
ultimately,
if
you're
a
principal
in
chesterfield,
you're,
looking
pretty
good.
So
I
won't
bring
that
average
up.
F
F
Finally,
I
did
want
to
also
highlight
the
averages
within
the
bermuda
district,
so
the
lowest
average
teacher
salary
in
the
bermuda
district
belongs
to
bellwood
elementary.
The
teachers
at
that
school
make
an
average
of
forty
nine
thousand
six
hundred
and
nine
dollars
the
highest
average
in
the
bermuda
district
belongs
to
the
teachers
at
elizabeth
davis
middle
school.
F
G
Good
evening
my
name
is
barb
seitz.
I
am
one
of
the
senior
citizens
that
they're
talking
about
and
I
have
a
husband
who's
disabled.
He
was
going
to
come
tonight,
he's
very
difficult
to
get
in
and
out
of
the
car
and
in
and
out
of
a
forum
like
this,
but
he
also
and
I
and
our
peer
group-
we
belong
to
a
group
called
lifelong
learning,
where
we
have
been
interacting
on
zoom
for
our
classes
for
the
elderly.
G
G
G
Over
the
last
couple
of
decades,
I
know
that
chesterfield
schools
have
become
increasingly
diverse,
we're
seeing
more
disabled
kids
we're
seeing
a
high
a
higher
increase
of
low-income
families
and
english.
As
second
language,
so
my
neighbor
is
claudia
livesey,
she
is
an
english
second
language
teacher.
She
was
going
to
come
tonight.
Couldn't
she's
got
a
couple.
G
Let's
see
do
I
have
anything
else
I
want
to.
I
want
to
include
no
I'm
just
going
to
say:
please
consider
fully
funding
our
schools.
We
need
your
support.
You
need
our
support,
we
old
folks,
we
do
support
schools
and,
by
the
way
we
do
support
a
lot
of
other
things
too.
So
please
consider
fully
funding
our
schools.
Thank
you.
B
B
We
definitely
recognize
that
schools
are
part
of
quality
of
life
in
chesterfield
county
and
that
they
are
important
to
all
of
our
citizens.
Although
it
is
true
that
our
families
in
the
county
that
have
school
age,
students
has
dropped
to
about
27.3
percent
of
the
county
from
a
high
of
about
33
percent.
That
being
said,
it
has
been
said
tonight,
and
I
agree
that
good
schools
does
affect
property
values
and
it
does
affect
everybody
in
the
county.
B
We've
worked
really
hard
as
board
of
supervisors,
with
the
current
school
board
to
address
issues,
and
somehow,
over
the
years
we've
found
that
somehow
this
has
become
chestfield
county
schools
versus
the
chesterfield
county
board
of
supervisors
or
the
the
general
funds
budget
in
conflict
with
how
we
fund
schools,
but
I've
spent
a
lot
of
time
with
ann
and
I'm
on
the
school
liaison
committee.
What
I
could
tell
you
that's
not
talked
about
a
lot.
Is
that
this,
this
battle
shouldn't
be
between
schools
in
the
county.
This
battle
should
be
the
schools
in
the
county.
B
Fighting
the
state.
The
state
sets
the
ratio
of
teachers
in
the
classroom,
the
county
funds
over
almost
600
additional
teachers,
100
of
their
salary.
Above
what
the
state
compensates,
there's
almost
a
thousand
total
school
employees,
including
those
teachers
that
are
not
funded
by
the
state,
zero
dollars
coming
in
from
the
state.
B
If
we
were
able
to
get
the
state
to
bring
in
ratios
that
were
more
in
line
with
where
we
need
to
have
in
the
classroom,
and
we
could
end
the
unfunded
mandates
that
the
state
puts
on
the
school
system
where
they
require
them
to
do
many
things
that
cost
millions
of
dollars,
there's
at
least
a
10
to
15
million
dollar.
I
believe
as
much
as
20
million
dollars
more
a
year
that
should
go
to
schools
from
the
state,
and
that
would
more
than
close
the
gap
that
the
schools
have
this
year.
B
We've
worked
very
hard
with
the
school
board,
and
I
appreciate
ann
and
her
colleagues
help
with
this
to
lobby
the
state
to
bring
this
issue
to
the
state
and
place
it
at
the
feet
of
the
people
that
actually
caused
the
problem,
and
I
ask
y'all
that
want
to
fully
fund
schools
to
help
us
to
lobby
the
state
to
get
the
state
to
do
their
part
so
that
we
can
fully
fund
our
schools.
Thank
you.
H
Good
evening,
mr
harris,
mr
engel
dr
casey,
my
name
is
fred
demay,
I'm
from
the
matauka
district,
a
couple
questions
and
then
some
comments
we're
going
over
the
budget
documents.
It
looks
like
we're
a
combined
budget
this
year
of
about
1.8
billion
between
county
and
schools,
and
I
believe,
that's
about
a
10,
maybe
a
10.2
percent
increase
over
last
year.
H
Traditionally,
chesterfield
budgets
are
running
about
two
to
a
little
bit
more
times
the
rate
of
inflation
and
last
year
now
we're
seeing
huge
increases
in
inflation
right
now,
but
last
year
the
annualized
inflation
rate
was
4.7
percent.
So
a
budget
running
at
about
10
to
10.2
is
again
about
two
times
the
rate
of
inflation.
H
H
However,
this
year
we
have
a
slightly
different
situation.
In
fact,
we
have
a
major
league
difference
situation,
we're
seeing
inflation
now
running
at
eight
percent,
and
I've
been
addressing
the
board
of
supervisors
for
about
18
years.
I've
been
in
with
the
school
boards
about
the
same
amount
of
time.
Unfortunately,
last
year
I
had
missed
in
the
year
before
because
of
the
covet
situation,
but
I
have
seen
now
by
looking
through
your
budget
documents
and
everything
just
one
of
the
most
aggressive
tax
reduction
efforts
in
the
history
of
the
county.
H
You
mentioned
that
mr
engel
and
you're
exactly
right,
mr
harris,
dr
casey,
their
staffs
have
done
an
excellent
job
of
moving
in
here
and
reducing
rates
to
the
point
that
they're
just
about
going
to
offset
a
lot
of
this
inflation,
and
in
addition
to
that,
I
have
issues.
I've
had
issues
for
quite
a
while
with
the
with
the
car
registration
tax
being
raised
from
20
to
40
dollars,
and
I
assume
that
you're
gonna
address
that
now,
with
a
50
tax,
cut,
good
job,
good
job.
Gentlemen,
good
job
same
goes
for
the
car
tax
itself.
H
H
The
the
statewide
salaries
here
in
virginia
at
the
very
least
in
comparison
to
other
states
are
in
the
top
half
there's
no
study,
that
of
with
with
any
real
credibility
that
shows
that
virginia
pay
for
teachers
is
below
the
below
the
top
25.,
and
I
have
a
couple
of
studies
here
that
I
referenced
here
now
it
was
difficult.
It
was
difficult
to
find
these,
so
what
I
did
is
I
went
to
some
some
large
large
job
online
job
sites,
one
of
them
being
indeed,
one
being
zip
recruiter.
H
Zip
recruiter
is
referencing.
A
lot
of
adp
numbers
and
adp
and
automatic
data
processing
is
a
huge
processing
operation
for
human
resources
and
pay,
and
they
ran
the
numbers.
They
do
pay
payroll
for
hundreds
of
school
systems
around
the
country
and
in
their
study,
virginia
ranks
15th
out
of
50
states.
H
Pay
and
job
site
and
they
reference
the
top
25
states
that
pay
teachers
the
most
in
2022
in
their
study,
virginia
ranks
12
out
of
50
states,
so
you
know
frankly,
12th
and
15th
they're,
certainly
not
in
the
top
ten,
but
they're,
certainly
not
in
the
bottom.
In
fact,
these
are
in
the
top
thirty
percent.
H
H
They
cited
a
couple
things.
One
is
the
compression
issue
and
I
believe
we're
all
familiar
with
that,
and
we
know
that
that's
a
problem.
Another
issue
that
was
cited
is
certain
certain
subjects.
Subject
matter
is,
is
a
very
big
issue
because
you're
having
a
very
difficult
time,
finding
math
teachers.
H
Obviously,
in
this
employment
environment
and
mr
harris
had
mentioned
this,
teachers
coming
out
of
school
to
teach,
math
are
being
sucked
up
by
industry
at
higher
salaries
and
that
drastically
reduces
the
number
of
teachers
that
could
go
into
the
profession
for
math
science
and
some
other
ones.
We
also
seem
to
be
having
a
big
problem
with
esl
teachers,
but
what
really
struck
me-
and
this
is
this-
this
was-
was
truly
interesting.
H
Given
all
the
the
lip
service
to
teacher
pay
is
the
number
one
reason
that
a
lot
of
teachers
have
left
the
profession
and
a
lot
of
these
people
were
were
getting
on
in
years.
But
it
wasn't
only
teachers
that
were
moving
into
a
retirement
mode
was
the
horrible
mismanagement
and
policy
decisions
being
made
by
our
school
board
and
ccps,
and
that
really
did
strike
me
because
that's
not
a
monetary
issue.
H
That's
a
personnel
and
people
issue,
and
I
I
don't
want
to
dwell
on
it,
but
we
went
through
the
masking
issue
where
the
school
board
totally
disregarded
the
science
on
masking
and
it
caused
a
lot
of
consternation.
The
other
big
issue
was
going
back
and
forth
with
the
remote
learning.
You
know
in
person.
H
H
C
C
This
proposal
that
is
being
discussed
tonight
already
has
15
million
dollars
of
such
funds
in
it,
and
you
really
got
to
sort
of
manage
that
amount
to
something
that
you
can
repeat
or
something
you
can
step
down
off
of.
So
that's
been
a
strategy
that
the
school
board
and
their
staff
have
already
deployed
to
help
get
to
this
place
and
then
going
beyond.
That
would
be.
You
know
not
the
best
step,
because
they
have
to
figure
out
how
they're
going
to
work
down
off
of
that
15
million
the
next
year.
C
The
middle
question:
how
can
the
county
provide
necessary
funding
for
all
needs
throughout
the
county
and
move
forward
in
a
sustainable
and
fiscally
responsible
way?
Now
you
know,
realistically,
you
can't,
I
mean
I
think
you
saw
on
that
slide
that
we
put
up
just
here.
You
know
that
we
have
a
transportation
list,
that's
in
the
billions
of
dollars,
every
budget's
about
making
tough
choices.
We've
left
a
lot
of
things
on
the
cutting
room
floor
on
the
county
side.
C
We
use
a
five-year
plan
model
to
really
be
able
to
lay
out
the
things
we
want
to
do
and
most
everything
we
do,
whether
it's
salaries
or
the
minimum
staffing
plan
we
talked
about.
We
do
over
the
course
of
a
number
of
years,
because
we
have
to
be
sustainable.
We
have
to
be
fiscally
responsible,
so
I
know
it
sounds
good
to
be
able
to
put
all
of
the
needs
and
no
one's
really
questioning
whether
it's
need
or
want,
but
the
economic
realities
of
any
budget
goodyear
bad
year.
C
C
It's
it's
vehicle
values
is
the
second
largest
component
of
that
and
really
the
third
thing
for
the
general
government
side
has
been
the
sales
tax
and
I
think
kovid
has
you,
know,
sort
of
a
an
odd
outgrowth
of
that
a
lot
of
chestville
residents,
spending
money
closer
to
home,
maybe
a
little
bit
more
online
activity,
and
so
that
that
has
put
a
few
more
sales
tax
dollars
in
the
budget
as
well
as
in
the
school
budget.
They
get
sales
tax
from
the
state
and,
overall,
you
know
they've
seen
some
increases
there
as
well.
I
Good
evening
I'm
jerry
turner,
I
try
to
go
to
as
many
of
these
meetings
I
can
before
facebook
I
had
to
physically
go
there
now
I
can
sit
home
and
do
it
at
home
and
I
missed
the
clover
hill,
so
they
didn't
get
to
see
my
face,
but
the
dale
did
and
I
lived
in
dale
district
and
I
brought
this
up
then
and
met
you
and
I've
talked
about
this
before
and
I'm
gonna
bring
it
up
every
year.
Until
you
all
change.
C
I
got,
I
know
what
you're
gonna
say
and
I
got
good.
I
got
good
news
for
you,
you're
talking
about
the
the
the
north
carolina
tax
issue,
sending
the
the
checks
out
of
state
absolutely
so
the
treasurer
has
heard
you
and
many
other
residents
and
we
are
bringing
lockbox
services
back
in
house
we're
good.
I'm
not
I'm
not
entirely
sure.
If
we're
going
to
have
everything
it
takes
a
lot
of
work
and
planning.
So
I
don't
know
whether
it
be
this
year,
but
absolutely
next
year
with
a
decent
chance.
I
Good,
I'm
glad
to
hear
that,
yes,
sir,
but
there
again,
your
staff
is
doing
a
very
good
job
with
facebook.
It
gives
everybody
a
chance
to
see
what
what
is
happening
without
having
to
physically
come
down
here
and
see
that
that's
a
good
thing
for
the
county.
The
other
thing
that
I
got
to
say
is
yeah.
I
There's
a
lot
of
people
out
there
that
have
a
lot
of
wants
and
but
to
cut
the,
but
the
tax
rate
to
make
everybody
feel
good
is
not
the
thing
to
do,
and
I
know
y'all
gotta
y'all
have
a
tough
job
trying
to
balance
the
the
budget
who's
who
needs
to
pay
what
and
how
much,
but
there
again
there's
a
lot
of
people
out
there.
A
lot
of
I
guess
agencies
within
the
in
the
county
that
need
additional
funding
and
cutting
the
budget
just
to
make
people
feel
good,
is
not
the
way
to
do
that.
J
K
Good
evening,
mr
engel
mr
harris
and
dr
casey
phil
law
from
bermuda
district,
and
I'm
not
here
to
talk
about
the
school
budget,
but
I
do
want
to
let
you
know
that
I
fully
support
fully
funded
and
I'm
a
product
of
the
chesterfield
county
schools
born
and
raised
here
all
my
life.
I
can't
understand
for
1.8
billion
budget
why
you
can't
fully
fund
the
school
budget,
so
please
take
that
into
consideration.
What
I'm
here
to
talk
about
is
the
additional
tax
burden
that
this
budget
places
upon
the
citizens
of
chesterfield
matt.
K
K
K
Two
years
ago,
chesterfield
county
joined
either
localities
in
the
central
regional
transportation
authority
to
get
more
transportation
dollars.
It
cost
chesterfield
citizens
approximately
57
million
dollars
a
year
at
7.5
cents,
on
a
tax
on
a
gallon
of
gas
and
0.7
additional
sales.
Tax
chelsea
field
only
gets
50
percent
of
this
money
back
directly
for
their
unrestricted
use.
So
that's
additional
taxes
to
the
taxpayer.
K
57
million
plus
56
million
equals
113
million
a
year
out
of
taxpayers
packets,
that's
equivalent
to
22.6
cents
increase
in
the
real
estate
tax
rate,
when
5
million
equals
1
cent.
As
mr
harris
made
me
aware,
with
the
change
in
a
profit,
ordinance
in
2016
developers
are
nearing
a
county
budgeted
level
of
only
1
million
paid
profit
dollars
a
year
with
over
20
000
new
rooftops
approved
in
the
last
two
years.
K
Now
the
county
is
advocating
a
540
million
bond
referendum
to
pay
for
new
schools
and
other
infrastructure
needs
required
by
excessive
over
development.
Plus
there
are
some
who
now
want
a
meals
tax
increase
all
to
be
paid
for
by
taxpayers,
while
developers
stuff
millions
of
profit
dollars
in
their
pockets,
walk
away.
Free
and
more
each
year
to
the
bls
members
campaign
funds
no
longer
will
the
citizens
allow
the
bls
to
continue
to
bleed
all
these
funds
from
taxpayers,
while
developers
walk
away
free,
we
insist
on
lowering
that
tax
rate
at
a
reasonable
rate.
K
L
L
L
I've
raised
my
son
in
chesterfield
county
and
he
is
about
to
graduate
from
manchester
high
school,
and
I
have
seen
how
the
impact
of
the
teachers
have
made
an
impact
in
my
life
and
have
made
an
impact
in
his
life.
I
think
everyone,
probably
in
this
room,
could
talk
about
the
impact.
The
teacher,
a
teacher
or
multiple
teachers
have
made
in
their
growth
and
development,
their
foundational
growth
and
development
that
have
made
them
into
the
their
character
the
great
character
we
have
here.
L
So
my
concern
about
not
funding
not
fully
funding
chanceville
county
schools
is
in
the
competition
that
we're
in
for
good
teachers
when
we
are
hiring
teachers
at
starting
pay,
two
thousand
dollars.
You
know
two
thousand
dollars
less
than
our
competitive
counties
right.
They
can
drive
20
minutes
across
the
river
to
make
two
grand
more.
That
is
the
beginning
of
their
career
right
and
in
the
end,
we
know
that
we
are
losing
high
quality
teachers
this
year,
sometimes
under
circumstances
that
we
cannot
control.
L
You
know
I
mean
who
knew
that
pandemic
was
going
to
roll
in,
and
all
these
problems
would
happen
all
the
challenges
we've
all
had
so
and
we
for
sure
will
lose
more
over
the
summer.
So
it's
about
it's
about
attracting
the
talent
and
then
retaining
the
talent
of
good
teachers
in
some
of
the
most
high-risk
classrooms.
Right,
I'm
very
concerned
about
the
number
of
teachers
we
have
lost
this
year
and
the
high
numbers
that
we
are
likely
to
lose
this
summer.
L
L
Thankfully,
like
over
time,
women
have
had
the
opportunity
and
lots
of
areas
of
employment
to
choose
careers,
but
that
only
that
only
contributes
to
the
ever
decreasing
number
of
women
who
are
going
into
teaching.
As
some
of
my
my
colleagues
have
previously
commented,
our
teaching
training
programs
in
virginia
are
not
keeping
up
with
the
demand.
Virginia
is
not
producing
enough
teachers
to
pre
to
to
fulfill
the
open
positions
and,
as
a
result,
even
trying
to
recruit
out
of
state
teachers
for
our
open
positions
is
futile.
L
L
L
I
still
want
to
attract
and
retain
teachers
that
need
to
need
to
significantly
increase
our
incentives
for
teachers
to
stay
here.
Otherwise,
counties
like
henrico
are
going
to
continue
to
pull
great
teachers
that
we
have
here
as
a
as
a
mom
as
a
business
owner
as
a
chesterfield
resident
like
please
like,
please
consider
how
to
fully
fund
churchville
county
schools.
Thank
you.
M
Hi,
I'm
I'm
her
son,
I'm
christopher,
so
I
go
to
the
tech
center
at
the
courthouse
tech
center.
So
I
do
computer
networking.
I
do
a
bunch
of
awesome
stuff
there
that
will
help
me
in
my
career
further
on
and
when
I
went
there
a
year
ago.
I
thought
oh,
this
will
be
interesting
because
I'm
also
doing
especially
center
so
doing
so
much
stuff.
It's
wait.
Some
time,
it'll
be
awesome.
M
So
when
I
went
there
and
I
met
this
awesome
teacher,
his
name
was
mr
steinrich.
He
was
awesome
and
so
kovit
happened.
We
didn't
see
that
coming
and
then
he
got
forced
into
retirement
and
then
I
didn't
get
to
have
the
awesome
experience
to
be
with
him
with
the
awesome
teacher
and
then
this
year
happened
and
it
was
all
fine
and
dandy.
M
Until
I
went
to
history
class
and
my
teacher
didn't
show
up
the
first
day
and
I
had
a
sub
like
a
temps
up
for
the
first
two
weeks
and
the
next
two
weeks
different
person,
and
then
we
have
a
more
permanent
sub.
Now,
after
that,
I
hear
all
these
different
stories
about
a
statistics
teacher
who
didn't
who
didn't
show
up
on
the
first
day
and
now,
they've
hadn't
really
learned
any
statistics,
like
actual
statistics
other
than
the
basics
and
basic
stuff.
M
M
I
didn't
get
one
of
the
certifications
from
the
tech
center
that
everyone
else
that
I've
been
that
has
gone
through
the
tech
center
had
the
chance
to
do.
We
didn't
get
the
vouchers
in
time
to
actually
take
the
certification
and
that
put
a
huge
dampener
on
my
resume
and
all
my
friends
resumes
in
the
same
class
fully
funding
the
the
budget
for
education
will
probably
help
way
more
than
how
it
has
been
in
the
past.
I
feel
like
it
will
help
so
much
more
than
it
has
right
now.
Thank
you.
C
Just
one
more
question:
that's
come
through
on
the
facebook.
What
is
the
projection
for
sports
tourism
how's
that
effective
revenue?
So
it's
hard
to
dial
down
exactly
what's
the
sports
tourism
piece,
but
we
have
seen
a
significant
injection
of
energy
from
our
sports
tourism
efforts.
It
shows
up
for
us
in
hotel
taxes.
That's
the
easiest
place
to
see
it.
That's
about
a
five
million
dollar
revenue,
so
I
think
again.
This
is
where
everything
is
relative
in
terms
of
scale.
C
So
even
if
that
you
know,
doubled
and
had
100
growth
from
year
to
year,
you
know
it's
really
that
real
estate
property
tax-
you
know
in
the
300
plus
million
dollar
range.
That's
where
the
the
real
power
the
muscle
of
the
budget
is,
but
we
have
seen
some
nice
revenues
here
in
terms
of
overall
hotel
activity.
We
lead
the
region
we're
back
to
where
we
were
prior
to
covid.
The
other
localities
have
not
seen
that
and
it
really
is
attributable
to
to
our
sports
tourism
efforts.
E
Mr
harris,
if
I
could
just
add
to
that
too,
you
know
sports
tourism
or
any
type
of
tourism,
a
visitor
to
chesterfield
on
day
one
who's
coming
here
and
has
a
good
experience
comes
back.
A
second
time
sometimes
comes
back
with
business
interests
and
needs,
and,
and
I've
seen
and
talked
to
people
like
that.
Chesterfield
is
not
necessarily
a
big
font
if
you
will
on
on
google
maps
so
when
they
are
coming
here
and
they're
at
river
city,
sportsplex
or
rvc,
or
many
of
the
hosted
facilities
that
we
have.
E
They
are
impressed
with
the
people
here,
the
businesses
here
and
the
quality
of
life,
and
they
start
researching,
while
they're
sitting
on
the
sidelines,
possibly
watching
their
child
play.
And
again
it's
just
it's
a
great
conversation.
I've
had
with
many
people
who
start
figuring
out
how
they
may
want
to.
You
know,
create
their
business
here
or
or
have
a
business
interest
here.
B
I
would
say
also
that
our
hotels
in
the
county
did
let
us
know
that
they
were
expecting
a
bigger
downturn
in
their
vacancy
rate
through
covid,
and
they
told
us
specifically
that
they
didn't
see
that
decline
in
the
vacancy
rate,
much
to
do
with
the
sports
tourism,
as
well
as
some
of
the
contracting
in
the
area
that
was
able
to
stay
in
the
hotels
and
keep
those
rates
or
keep
those
rooms
full.
So
between
the
two
of
those
things,
but
specifically
the
sports
tourism.
B
C
So
yeah,
so
last
online
question
looks
like
here
so
be
a
sports
tourism
follow-up.
Are
they
also
if
they're
staying
in
the
county?
Are
they
also
eating
in
restaurants?
Would
a
meals
tax
be
considered
in
the
future
yeah?
It's
certainly
that
I
think
that's
that's
really
the
benefit
from
it.
It's
the
hotel
and
this
sort
of
that
ancillary
spending
it's
harder
to
capture
and
know
exactly
what
that
is,
because
it's
just
not
a
clear
mechanism
for,
for
you
know
the
accounting
associated
with
that.
C
We
can
estimate
it
based
on
national
stuff,
but
that's
part
of
our
economic
development
strategy
is
to
add
those
wrap
around
services
so
that
when
they
come
here
for
a
tournament,
they
don't
have
to
go
to
another
locality
to
find
a
hotel
or
a
restaurant
or
whatever
they
might
be.
Looking
for
in
terms
of
the
meals
tax,
there's
no
meals,
taxes
to
what
is
being
discussed
here
tonight.
N
Good
evening
my
name
is
renee
eldridge
and
I've
got
a
couple
of
different
questions.
I
noticed
in
the
utilities
budget
there's
money
for
repairs,
it's
actually
a
large
chunk
of
it,
but
I'm
kind
of
wondering,
as
I
drive
through
my
neighborhood
and
all
the
roads
are
going
like
this
and
it's
all
following
the
sewer
line,
I'm
thinking
of
the
city
and
the
problems
that
they
have
and
I'm
wondering
how
you
budget
future
needs.
So
we
don't
ever
get
to
the
point.
N
N
I
got
some
more.
You
can
either
answer
now
or
one
time
it
doesn't
matter
you
can.
Some
of
them
are
just
kind
of
comments,
but
I
was
also
looking
at
the
dog
license.
Revenue
you've
got
forty
thousand
dollars
in
there
for
this
year
and
80
grand
for
next,
and
I'm
kind
of
wondering
where
you
get
the
80
grand
seeing
how
you
now
have
a
permanent
dog
license.
N
If
you
live
in
the
county,
you
don't
have
to
keep
redo
renewing
it
every
year
that
was
just
kind
of
stood
out
also
on
in
the
cip.
You've
got
20.6
million
in
for
22
and
116.2
for
the
rest
of
the
five
years,
total
that
money's
coming
from
the
newly
created
transportation
monies
that
I
know
I
haven't
been
able
to
really
keep
up
with
it.
E
Yeah
I'll
bring
out
the
old
budget
person
to
me,
but
mr
harris
is
here
first
public
utilities
and
we'd
be
glad
to
sit
down
with
you
or
anybody.
They
go
through
a
very
comprehensive
modeling
exercise
of
all
of
their
infrastructure,
water
and
sewer
and
that
there's
maintenance
and
repair
on
infrastructure.
So
again
you
don't
have
breaks
as
much
as
other
localities.
Have
you
don't
have
the
issues
so
there's
there's
a
rehab
nature
for
a
water
and
sewer
system,
for
which
I
think
that
that
repair
line
item
is
maybe
where
much
of
that
is
captured.
E
That's
not
a
capital
investment
because
we're
not
extending
lines
or
creating
new
infrastructure,
but
I
think
there's
thousands
of
miles
of
underground
infrastructure
in
the
county,
and
I
think
it
has
I'm
going
to
make
a
guess.
But
let's
say
it
has
a
40-year
useful
life.
So
what
you
do
is
you
take
the
total
cost
of
repair
and
rehab
over
40
years,
and
you
invest
that
in
every
year
generally
works
out
to
about
two
and
a
half
percent
of
the
asset
value.
It's
a
modeling
exercise.
E
We
use
for
the
counties
and
and
the
schools
have
started
to
prescribe
to
that
as
well,
so
we
all
are
one
family
with
that
for
dog
licenses.
My
understanding
is
over
this
last
year,
coveted
helped
create
this
fervor.
If
you
will
that
every
every
single
person,
I
know,
I
think,
has
adopted
a
dog
which
is
great.
E
In
fact,
it's
taken
off
some
of
the
pressures
of
our
animal
shelter
needs
because
we
it's
like
it's
like
a
house,
an
animal
doesn't
last
long
with
us,
and
so
again
you
are
correct
with
the
permanent
dog
license
fee,
but
the
volume
of
people
who
are
wanting
animals
is
unprecedented.
So
again,
if,
if
that
that
volume
were
to
wane,
then
we
will
we
will
adjust
that
revenue
source
accordingly
and
you
are
right.
E
What
you
are
hearing
at
the
state
level
is
the
state
fuels
tax,
that's
another
tax
or
another
source.
That
is
not
the
cvta
tax
that
the
state
would
have
to
amend
that
section
of
the
code
as
it
applies
to
the
cvta,
probably
no
different
than
what
the
hampton
roads
equivalent
taxes
or
the
northern
virginia
equivalent
taxes
of
these
authorities.
So
right
now
all
of
those
are
in
place.
B
Renee,
just
one
more
thing
on
utilities:
first
off
when
I
saw
the
investment
into
the
bermuda
district
for
utilities,
I
was
extremely
excited
until
I
realized
that
the
reason
for
that
is
because
we
do
routinely
update
our
lines
and
we
have
the
oldest
in
our
district.
So
that's
why
we
have
the
most
money
going
into
infrastructure
in
our
district,
but
it
is
part
of
the
rates
so
utilities.
B
B
N
B
It's
coming,
I
promise
you
they,
they
have
a
good
there's
one
department.
I
really
trust
on
getting
things
done
is
utilities
our
public
safety
and
our
utilities
are
probably
the
only
place
that
government
responds
almost
immediately
everything
else.
There's
a
lag
in
the
response
from
government,
so
I
think
that
is
absolutely
a
bright
point
in
the
county.
I.
N
Will
say
the
last
time
the
that
we
had
the
low
we
had
our
water
pressure
just
plummeted
it.
It
did
not
take
them
but
hours
to
get
it
back
up,
so
that
was
good.
Also,
you've
got
250
000
in
community
revitalization
and
then
150
000
four
years
next,
four
years
after
that,
come
on
guys,
we
need
some
revitalization
in
the
county.
C
Well,
but
what
I'm
saying
is
that
the
suite
of
lines
that
that
go
towards
that
end
goal
is
this
budget
has
more
than
any
budget
ever
before
the
board
is
put
in
place
or
is
proposed,
but
in
place
a
district
enhancement
fund,
1.1
million
dollars
per
district.
That
is
really
aimed
at
those
kind
of
mid
to
small
projects
that
aren't
otherwise
covered
in
the
plan.
Then
we
have
some
specific.
We
actually
have.
C
N
C
N
C
It
was
actually
you
know:
chesterfield
county
was
named
by
money
magazine
as
one
of
the
top
50
places
to
live
in
america
and
one
of
the
things
that
they
cited
in
making
that
determination
was
the
amount
of
money
we
spend
in
parks
from
our
arpa
plan.
So
it's
you
know,
we
agree
with
you
it.
I
think
that's
one
of
the
things
coveted
showed
us,
but
this,
but
that's
why
it's
hard
to
look
at
one
particular
slice,
the
arpa,
which
doesn't
show
up
in
there.
C
N
But
that
is
one
thing
that,
because
they've
now
seen
parks
they're
going
to
want
more
and
more
and
more
so.
You
have
a
variety
of
places
to
go,
and
my
last
thing
that
I
would
like
to
ask
for
I'm
not
sure
whose
budget
it
would
come
out
of.
But
if
you
could
put
some
postage
in
there
to
actually
send
everybody
on
jefferson
davis
highway
a
letter
that
says
the
name
has
changed.
B
Of
them
are
correct,
so
hopefully
we
will
see
that
take
place
in
a
relatively
near
future
and
when
the
street
signs
are
changed,
that
that
will
go
out,
but
until
then
it's
going
to
be
confusing
to
people
to
have
stationary
that
says
route
1
when
that's
not
what
the
street
signs
say.
So
it's
confusing
time
the
internet
has
not
made
it
better,
but
we
we
are
working
towards
that
and
that
is
that
is
what's
holding
it
up.
Is
the
state
changing
the
signs
out
as
soon
as
that's
done,
everybody's
gonna
get
notified.
N
N
C
We
have,
I
mean,
there's
there's
13
million
dollars
in
this
plan.
That
comes
back
after
the
you
know.
We
did
the
decompression
last
year
that
looks
specifically
at
starting
salary.
We,
we
are
just
waiting
to
finalize
what
those
numbers
are
kind
of
seeing
what
every
card
everyone
else
is
holding
and
then
on
april
6th.
You
know
we
think
between
now
and
april,
6
we'll
be
able
to
reveal
those
final
numbers,
but
we
feel
very
confident
with
the
resources
that
are
in
this
plan
at
92
cents
that
we're
able
to
address
that
challenge.
E
If
I
could
add
to
that
too
again,
ideally
on
april
6
for
the
step-based
plans
of
police,
fire
sheriff
and
teacher,
you
will
see
each
and
every
step
of
each
and
every
year
of
their
career
decompress.
That
was
a
goal
of
last
year's
plan.
So,
for
the
first
time
we
actually
had
different
years
used
to
be
on
the
same
step,
and
there
are
people
we
compete
with
that
may
have
a
higher
starting
salary,
but
actually
share
once
they
get
in
seven
ten
years.
They
stay
on
the
same
step
for
multiple
years.
E
So
again,
as
mr
harris
referenced,
you
know
we're
working
with
our
school
counterparts.
Work
with
our
public
safety
leaders
to
have
these
step-based
plans
not
only
compete
at
the
first
step,
because
that's
where
you
primarily
recruit
the
new
person
but
again
to
keep
somebody
for
their
entire
career
in
a
decompressed
system.
All
of
those
positions
would
agree
that
having
a
compressed
system
where
again,
the
experienced
person
is
making
the
same
as
the
new
person
lends
to
morale
issues
and
lends
to
people
leaving
to
a
decompressed
system.
E
Having
said
that,
the
rest
of
the
civilian
workforce
custodial
and
everything
else
that
we
share
positions
with
the
schools
and
counties
together,
we
call
it
the
civilian
workforce
that
is
part
of
this.
More
extensive
pay
study
that
we're
doing
all
of
those
variables,
hopefully
will
be
coming
to
fruition
april
6.
E
B
In
the
same
problem,
we
have
with
the
state
not
funding
schools
properly
with
proper
ratios.
They
don't
fund
our
commonwealth's
attorney's
office,
our
sheriff's
department,
many
other
departments
in
the
county-
that
we
are
also
fully
funding
extra
positions,
because
we
believe
that
those
positions
are
important
to
have.
Even
though
the
state
says
we
don't
need
them.
N
O
O
N
O
O
Okay,
and
just
just
as
an
aside,
I
think
the
fallen
creek
park
has
been
in
the
plans
for
over
25
years.
So
we
would
really
like
to
see
that
be
made
a
priority,
and
I
understand
some
of
that
was
washed
out
with
gaston,
but
we'd
really
like
to
see
that
becoming
important
to
the
county.
To
really,
we
think
will
have
an
impact
on
the
area.
O
So,
but
again,
we
really
want
to
thank
you
for
your
investment
in
the
area
through
roar.
Rohr
is
a
proactive,
grassroots
non-profit
that
was
birthed
in
february
of
2020
and
as
a
hub
for
one
of
the
hubs
for
revitalization
along
route
1.
We
helped
connect,
equip
and
support
individuals,
families,
businesses
and
organizations.
O
O
And
these
are
some
statistics
that
jimmy
bowling
gave
me
and
as
a
region,
we
have
significantly
less
education,
make
about
half
as
much
money
and
are
experiencing
twice
the
poverty
rate
of
the
rest
of
the
county.
So
your
investment
in
our
area
is
beginning
to
help
bring
about
some
positive
change
and
we
truly
are
thankful
and
here's.
Some
of
the
things
that
your
cdbg
dollars
are
doing
through
roar
because
of
your
investment
in
us.
O
So
thank
you
for
investing
in
route,
one
community
through
funding
our
grant
this
year.
At
the
moment,
there
are
no
monies
a
set
aside
as
we're
as
far
as
we're
aware
of
for
next
fiscal
year
for
roars
project,
and
that
would
mean
that
our
cdbg
funding
will
end
at
the
end
of
june.
We
hope
that
funding
non-profits
that
started
or
are
located
in
chesterfield
will
become
a
priority
for
chesterfield's
use
of
their
cdbg
funds
and
that
especially
place-based
organizations
that
grow
out
of
the
efforts
of
concerned.
O
Citizens
and
struggling
areas
will
be
a
priority
and
we
hope
that
you'll
choose
to
continue
to
build
upon
the
investment
that
you've
already
made
in
our
area
by
funding
roars
community
empowerment
project
and
that
that
will
continue
in
2223,
regardless
we're
truly
grateful
for
all
that
you've
done
and
we
look
forward
to
continuing
our
partnership
with
the
county
in
the
coming
days.
There's
a
lot
more
work
to
be
done.
We
all
know
that
and
we
think
that
the
county
and
roar
make
a
pretty
good
team.
E
Miss
marvel,
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you,
for
you
know
you
created,
you
know,
roar
and
built
it,
and
you
know
one
of
the
things
I
like
to
get
with
you
and
not
have
the
conversation
here,
but
I
do
think
that,
while
the
cbd
cdbg
the
federal
government
programs
was,
it
was
an
impetus
to
start.
You
know
your
organization
up.
I
think
we
all
realize
the
forms
and
processes
of
the
federal
government
which
we
have
to
follow.
You
have
to
follow.
E
They
are
not
as
designed
well
for
a
startup
entity
that
that's
in
the
fundraising
mode
and
and
I'd
like
to
talk
to
you
more
about
another
manner
outside
of
all
the
federal
bureaucracy,
for
what
you
do
as
a
cause
and
and
again,
I
think
you've
done
a
nice
public
service
message
here.
So
if
anyone
were
to
google
your
organization,
you
know
they'll
see
everything
that
you
do
and
I
personally
believe
in
what
you
do.
O
Thank
you.
That
means
a
lot
and
yes,
you
know
federal
regulations
are
not
fun
for
anybody
for
your
the
department
that
has
to
to
deal
with
that
and
and
for
people
in
the
community,
and
it
is
called
community
development
block
grant.
So
you
know
the
idea
seems
to
be
at
some
point.
It
was
for
developing
the
community
in
areas
that
needed
to
be
worked
on.
O
So
we
appreciate
that
we
appreciate
all
the
work
that's
gone
in
and
we've
certainly
worked
really
hard
on
our
end
and
it
has
been
a
challenging
time
during
the
pandemic
to
raise
money
birthing.
I
don't
recommend
birthing,
a
non-profit
in
the
in
the
middle
of
a
pandemic.
So
but
we're
happy
to
be
here.
We're
excited
about
what's
happening,
we're
on
track
to
meet
our
goals,
we're
trying
to
color
within
the
lines-
and
we
appreciate
you
so
thanks.
A
Good
evening
again,
I
was
just
going
to
remind
we've:
we've
hit
our
allotted
time,
but
we
do
notice.
We
have
two
more
questions
that
have
come
in
before
the
eight
o'clock
hour
through
facebook.
I'd
recommend
we
address
those.
We
thank
everybody
for
tuning
in
tonight
and
being
here
in
person,
and
I
am
certain
that
mr
harris,
mr
engel
and
dr
case
will
be
happy
to
hang
out
for
a
few
minutes.
If
ever
anyone
else
in
the
audience
has
some
more
questions
after
we
shut
down
the
virtual
portion
of
the
meeting.
Thank
you.
C
So
the
more
commercial
that
we
can
get
coming
in
provides
different
kinds
of
dollars
and
that
ultimately
helps
us
build
better
budgets
move
forward
and
hence
the
board's
focus
on
economic
development.
The
second
one
revolves
around
a
quite
question
about
instructional
vacancies
and
how
to
draw
in
new
teachers,
and
how
does
this
budget
play
into
that,
and
I
think
that
you
know
that's
a
question
that
will
be
resolved
here
over
the
next
couple
weeks
as
we
balance
this
school
budget.
C
Certainly
there
are
a
lot
of
dollars
going
back
into
teacher
raises
not
to
go
above
and
beyond
what
the
governor
has
put
in
place.
I
think
the
original
proposal
was,
on
average,
closer
to
10
percent
for
teachers,
what
to
figure
out
again
what
the
state
budget
ultimately
can
provide
and
then,
if
there
have
to
be
other
choices
made,
but
that
will
be.
You
know
something
that
the
school
board
will
have
to
wrestle
with.
C
Where
are
those
monies
invested,
because
they
also
have
a
non-instructional
portion
of
their
pay
plan
that
could
be,
you
know,
pushed
off
into
a
second
year
or
that
could
be.
You
know,
reduced
somewhat
the
county.
You
know
we
would
like
to
do
more
for
our
non-public
safety
folks,
but
we
are
going
to
do
that
over
a
two-year
period
because
we
just
don't
feel
like
we
can
get
it
all
done
in
one
year,
so
the
reality
is.
B
B
If
you
weren't
able
to
make
it
to
one
of
the
first
three,
we
do
have
two
more
march
21st
for
the
midlothian
district
and
march
22nd
for
the
matuka
district
and
again
there
is
no
checking
papers
at
the
door
for
which
district
you're
in
or
online
so
you're
able
to
come
in
and
participate
in
those
as
well.
Then
we
will
have
our
public
hearing
on
march
23rd
and
we
will
move
to
adopt
our
budget
on
april
6th
and
I
am
more
than
willing
to
stay
and
talk
to
people
afterwards.