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WOODBRIDGE — A $36 million renovation of Northern Virginia Community College’s Woodbridge campus is expected to start in fall 2020. The Seefeldt Building will be updated to include centralized student services, new classroom spaces, and updated infrastructure.
The renovation, which will take approximately 18-24 months, will provide badly-needed updates and changes to the nearly 50-year-old building.
MANASSAS — Joseph Gabalski won’t return next year as Osbourn High School Principal.
Gabalski was named school principal in June 2017. It is the only position he ever held with Manassas City Public Schools and he will exit the school at the end of June.
MANASSAS — City Treasurer Patricia Richie-Folks is getting some back up in the effort to collect delinquent taxes.
Manassas city coffers are short more than $4.5 million back taxes — everything from unpaid meals, lodging, personal property, to business and professional licensing taxes. The delinquent taxes date back to 2014. By law, has five years to collect them or forego the revenue.
MANASSAS — Annaberg Manor now belongs to Manassas residents.
The city council agreed to purchase the nearly four-acre property for $846,000 using funds it got from the sale of the property it owned on Gateway Boulevard, behind a DMV office.
STAFFORD — The Stafford County School Board reached a final consensus on the nine-month-long elementary school redistricting process, voting in favor of Plan E 2-1.
The plan affects 3,036 students and splits nine neighborhoods. There are entire neighborhoods, like Aquia Harbour, whose children would be moving from Ann E. Moncure Elementary School to Hampton Oaks Elementary. Many Aquia Harbour parents and students spoke out against the plan.
MANASSAS — Virginia will move its DMV out of Manassas and into Prince William County.
The DMV office at 9800 Godwin Drive in Manassas will relocate to Parkridge Center, on Bulloch Drive across from the Northern Virginia Community College Manassas Campus.
STAFFORD — The story of Jamestown is tied to Stafford County.
Now the Patawomeck Indian Tribe (pronounced Potomac) wants to tell that story, and it’s in talks with Stafford leaders to get a donation of public land to recreate the tribe’s village at Duff McDuff Green Memorial Park on the Rappahannock River.
STAFFORD — The Stafford Board of Supervisors could approve a five percent raise for all school system employees, forcing an increase in property taxes.
The School Board presented its proposed budget to the Board of Supervisors on March 20 calling the employee raise which would cost the School Board $1.2 million. The School Board also wants to add another one percent increase for educators with 13 years or more of experience, equating their total raises to six percent.