Updated 4 p.m. â It took multiple attempts, votes to reconsider, and 12 hours filled with arguments and accusations, but Stafford County now has the fiscal year 2024 budget that will take effect July 1, 2023.
The Stafford Board of Supervisors hiked Real Estate taxes by 14% 11% to fund the $947 million spending plan, with a 93 cent tax rate on every $100 assessed home value. Supervisors made their final decisions close to 1 a.m. after several voting rounds on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, and rescinding a plan that would have raised taxes by only 7%.
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Tomorrow, April 18, 2023, is decision day for the Stafford County Board of Supervisors.
Elected leaders on the board will vote to approve the county governments' fiscal year 2024 budget and the Real Estate tax rate used to fund the $947 million spending plan. Supervisors proposed 38% percent tax hike on residents, the largest in state history.
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Student members of the Stafford Middle School LEOs stuffed more than 400 eggs for an egg hunt held at the Thurman Brisbane Center, a homeless shelter in Fredericksburg, on Saturday, April 8, 2023.
The Aquia Evening Lions Club provided the candy and sponsored the club.
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Stafford County Schools Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor had little to say when asked if he expected the Board of Supervisors would vote to fully fund his school division's $442 million 2024 budget.
"I don't opine on what boards that I don't serve on might do," Taylor told PLN, after participating in months of budget negotiations between the school division and county government.
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Hundreds attended a public hearing on a proposed 38% percent tax hike in Stafford County.
On Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 81 people signed up to speak, and many shared stories of how their children struggle in the county's public schools because of the division's inability to retain experienced teachers, provide adequate places to provide tutoring, and its installation of trailer classrooms outside the school buildings.
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The 2022-23 school year marked the first time a student representative sat on the Stafford County School Board.
The county followed a growing trend around the region where school boards allow student body members to sit alongside elected officials and share their opinions and insight on matters facing the governing body.
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Student vaping in Stafford County Public Schools is a problem. We've reported parents' concerns, and WRC-TV reported on new vape detectors to be installed at county schools.
This week, the Stafford sheriff's office says it's caught some students in the act and has filed charges:
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The extended lunch period known as "power hour" has ended at one Stafford County high school.
Colonial Forge Principal Gregory Daniel announced power hour was over following a fight between two multiple students, prompting a 911 call to the school. So far, the sheriff's office says students were involved in fights that broke out at 10:40 a.m. today, Wednesday, April 5, 2023.
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Stafford County Public Schools thanks its business partners during a breakfast meeting.
About 100 people gathered at Ebeneezer United Methodist Church, 161 Embrey Mill Road. Superintendent Dr. Thomas Taylor thanked business owners for involvement in the school division's career and technical education program.
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A volunteer basketball coach at Brooke Point High School was arrested earlier this month after a juvenile victim reported an incident to law enforcement.
More in a press release from the Stafford County Sheriff's Office:
A juvenile victim reported she was on a Stafford County school bus travelling for an away basketball game last month when an assistant basketball coach sat next to her on the bus seat.
