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Spotsylvania residents urge supervisors to keep lid county taxes low Date published: 4/9/2010
BY DAN TELVOCK Even though they face as much as a 42 percent increase in their real-estate tax bills, Spotsylvania County business owners were largely absent from last night's public hearing on the fiscal year 2011 budget. But some residents showed up to urge supervisors to keep taxes low. Business owners will pay more in real-estate taxes because the 2010 assessments for commercial property increased three-tenths of a percent. With an equalized tax rate of 83 cents per $100 assessed value, a commercial property owner would pay $1,062 more for a building assessed at $500,000. An equalized tax rate means the county will generate the same amount of revenue as it did this fiscal year. If the rate approved is 88 cents, which is what supervisors advertised, businesses will pay 42 percent more. Residential property assessments declined overall by 28.2 percent, and more than half of county residents will pay less or the same in real-estate taxes with an equalized rate. How much more those who did have increases in their residential assessments will pay depends on the rate supervisors approve later this month. One man said his real-estate tax bill could increase at least $900 a year. "That's absurd," he said. Supervisors heard from more than 40 residents with a variety of requests and criticism, but a large group of speakers were against any tax increases in the budget. A majority of the approximately 150 people in attendance applauded when a few speakers criticized the school system's budget. About 30 people wearing white T-shirts that said "Hold The Line" in red asked the board to keep taxes low. Donna Williams, who has owned a cleaning business in the county for 25 years, said her company bid on janitorial services for some county schools. She said the school system instead chose a Tennessee company. She said over the time of the contract, the school system will pay more than $1 million more than her bid. She said that money will not stay in Spotsylvania. "That could equate to 20.2 teachers," she said. "They want to pay more to clean dirt than to educate our children."
interested in Mr. Logan's reaction to the seemingly low response level from his fellow business colleagues. Did he not claim, "this is huge" or some such comment about the business communities response to the possible tax rates? Look forward to hearing from Mr. Logan soon. Or will he just ignore this as he does other non-business constituent communications?
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O thats right more of those people are leaving by the early buy out and we are paying them exter to leave.Sounds honest to me in my opinion
And you should have to deal with Chartwells what a bunch a nasty people and a company from the UK it you take time to look throw all there American company to see who they really are and dishonest in my opinion that is. All they want to do is screw the spotsy worker in my opinion should be the first to be run out of town my opinion And Mr Hill and Mr myers And B seals should go with them they love them so much in my opinion. corruption in my opinion.
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Maybe Hap can answer us on this item. I have seen some of these workers in the janitorial service and they don't speak English....hummmmm. First the School system gets rid of the Cafeteria ladies in favor of Cartwell....now a Tennessee company gets our dollars over a local company. Wait till the route 3 widening starts......does anyone see a trend here. Local Politics needs a through HouseCleaning.
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