Last night, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved their $218.1M 2003-2004 budget, increasing spending by 4.8% over the current year’s budget. Tax rates were not changed. This fall, they intend to look at raising the car decal fee from $25 to $28.50 in order to generate an additional $227,500 in revenue annually. David Dadurka has the story in today’s Progress.
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$218.1 Million? What on earth are they buying? We’re barely more than a town. With a population of 45,000 thats $4846 for every man woman and child in the city.
Is that absurd to anyone else? Or is it just me?
It’s the County budget, not the city.
This is the Albemarle budget, not the Charlottesville budget. Albemarle has a population of 81,000, or expenses of $2,692 per person. It’s worth noting that the county has a per capita income of $28,852.
Doh, if I could READ perhaps I would have realized that.
That makes a lot more sense.
Although you got it wrong – yes, they are in a way, buying part of a town. It`s called Charlottesville which discriminates against County residents by charging them more for certain services although County residents contribute to those services via the tax route.
My favorite part is that whenever Albemarle increase taxes it hurts the index that the state use to determine a counties or cities ability to pay. Thus because of our high revenues Albemarle gets to pay more local tax so we can get less from the state.
Worse yet, we have to pay extortion money to the City in the form of "revenue sharing" – what the hell kind of pseudo socialist crap is THAT? :)