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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Increased meals tax, leveled school board budget highlight changes to Roanoke city's fiscal budget
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – Roanoke City Council looks much closer to having its budget set for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, but it came at a cost for Roanoke residents and visitors. Your next dinner out in the star city could cost you a little extra, as council boosted the city's prepared food and beverage tax one percent, bringing it to 6.5 percent overall. With that ordinance comes a 1.5 percent discount for business owners who pay the taxes on time, and a surprise vote in favor of a two-year sunset clause, which can lower the tax back to 5.5 percent in 2027. Texas Tavern owner Matt Bullington was in attendance, and while he didn't call the decision a win, he was pleased with those modifications. 'I feel that when I reached out to individual council members and had a lot of conversations with them, they were receptive and they understood that they're in a financial fix,' Bullington said. 'Let's hope that they figure that out, then it sunsets and we can go back to at least where we were.' Mayor Joe Cobb was frustrated with the sunset amendment because he felt like it wasn't the right time to make a change like that. Roanoke restaurants speak out on city council's proposed meals tax increase 'We have the provision of reviewing it annually,' he said. 'I'm concerned that we box ourselves in, and limit ourselves.' Another tough call for leaders today: revising the school board budget. Council voted 5-1 in favor of leveling the budget from last year, leaving the school board almost $7 million short of what it was hoping for. Councilman Nick Hagen was the one No vote on both issues, and he believes this can be harmful to the schools. 'I think one of the concerns that they will see is that they're going to have to make some very hard decisions about looking at classes that are being cut,' Hagen said. 'That's one of the concerns I have.' Mayor Cobb had different thoughts. 'I don't buy this idea that we don't support the schools,' he said. 'I don't agree with it, and I think there's a narrative that's being cast out there that are trying to make us look like the bad guys and we are not.' Mayor Cobb mentioned the school board still gets the most money from the city of any entity, along with an annual $5 million from the Capital Improvement plan. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
St. Martin voters passed the tax renewal for school upgrades
St. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — Today, voters in St. Martin Parish went to the polls to decide whether or not to renew an existing tax aimed at completing upgrades at schools parish wide. The Parishwide School District $30 M Bond passed the vote with 60% saying yes. According to the Voter Portal website the Parish wide School District Proposition Stated: 'Shall St. Martin Parish School District, Louisiana (the 'District'), incur debt and issue bonds to the amount of not exceeding $30,000,000, in one or more series, to run not exceeding 20 years from date thereof, with interest at a rate of not exceeding 7% per annum, for the purpose of financing capital expenditures for school purposes for the District, including constructing, acquiring and/or improving schools and other school related facilities, together with equipment and furnishings therefor, including, to the extent feasible, those specific school projects set forth in the 'Capital Improvement Plan' to be approved prior to the election, title to which shall be in the public; which bonds will be general obligations of the District and will be payable from ad valorem taxes to be levied and collected in the manner provided by Article VI, Section 33 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974 and statutory authority supplemental thereto, with no estimated increase in the millage rate to be levied in the first year of issue above the 21.50 mills currently being levied to pay General Obligation Bonds of the District?' Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now St. Martin Parish seeks tax renewal for school upgrades Cajun football hosts Vermilion & White spring game St. Martinville voters adopted the Lawrason Act Voters in Jennings elected Carolyn Simon as city council member St. Martin voters passed the tax renewal for school upgrades Louisiana completes series sweep of Southern Miss Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Joplin's annual street resurfacing project begins this week
JOPLIN, Mo. — The City of Joplin's annual resurfacing program begins tomorrow. Starting in the Easttown area and a few roads south of 7th Street, crews with 'Blevins Asphalt Construction' will remove the top few inches of asphalt from the roads before laying a fresh coat. Residents affected will be notified 48 hours before work begins with informational hangers on their front doors. Crews will mark streets with no parking signs along both sides, and at each end of the block. After East-town is finished, crews will move on to St. Louis Avenue, at Zora and Prairie Flower Roads, southwest Joplin, Connecticut Avenue from 15th to 32nd Street, northwest Joplin, and Forest Park Cemetery. You can find maps of the work zones through the link here. This project is funded by the Transportation, Capital Improvement, and Parks and Stormwater sales tax initiatives. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Yahoo
Montrose County Jail upgraded after survey finds inadequacies
MONTROSE, Colo. (KREX) — The Montrose County Jail recently got an upgrade after a survey found several inadequacies. The process behind the upgrade began seven years ago. Funds for the project came from the Public Safety Sales Tax and Capital Improvement funds. The total project cost was $8 million. Geo Commander for the Montrose County Sheriff's Office Dean McNulty talked with WesternSlopeNow about the improvements made to the jail. 'We found out we had some pretty good deficiencies with the holding area. We were only able to hold about 15 inmates down there. With the new expansion remodel project, we increase that to 44. So, with an increased booking area, we also examined our video courtroom and found that that was inadequate. So, that's been expanded as well. We've got some administrative offices, and our kitchen was added on too.' The project took one year to complete. Breaking ground in March 2024 and was completed in March 2025. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
VB budget proposal includes revived boat tax, meals tax and stormwater rate increase
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — In order to help combat inflation in the coming fiscal year, the city manager is proposing several tax and fee rate increases, including placing a tax on pleasure boats. In a presentation to Virginia Beach City Council Tuesday afternoon, Budget Director Kevin Chatellier revealed the FY 2025-2026 $2.8 billion budget plan had to take into account cost increases of 40% for some city initiatives. And while the real estate tax is recommended to stay the same at $0.97 per $100 of assessed value, Chatellier said it has recommended other taxes and fees be increased in order to continue to preserve and maintain existing services. The resurrected boat tax would be applied to anyone with a boat 18-feet or longer at a rate of $1.50 per $100 of assessed value. Chatellier estimates this would produce an estimated $4.3 million in yearly revenue that would go towards projects boaters use, such a dredged waterways. 'Larger boats typically draw more water, driving more of the necessity for frequentdredgings to maintain navigable waterways,' City Manager Patrick Duhaney wrote in a letter to City Council. If approved, this would actually be a return on the boat tax eliminated in 2002. Suffolk also taxes boats at the same rate. Duhaney's budget would also increase the meals tax by .5%, bringing a diner's full tax for a meal in Virginia Beach to 12%. A proposed fee increase is also included for the stormwater enterprise fund. The rate will go up 8.9 cents a day, working out to annual increase of $32, or around $2.70 per month. 'Significant inflation on the cost of goods and services in the last six years, coupled with increased labor costs have substantially impacted the sustainability of the stormwater fund,' Duhaney wrote. Balances to the budget have also been made by eliminating proposed Capital Improvement Projects (CIP). Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
