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Newport News previews 2026 legislative package: traffic-camera reviewers, land-value tax option and charter changes on recall and compensation
Summary
City staff outlined proposed state legislative requests and charter-change options including authority for local traffic-camera video reviewers, optional land-value tax authorization, a local recall-election process, and a citizen compensation committee; council asked for more study on partisan labeling and ranked-choice voting.
Jerry Wilson presented Newport News'proposed 2026 General Assembly priorities and several charter-change ideas during the Oct. 28 work session.
Wilson framed the approaching biennial budget session as challenging and described policy and budget requests the city is considering for its legislative package. Among the specific code-change asks, staff proposed a narrower follow-up to last year's traffic-camera legislation to allow localities to hire and train technicians to review traffic-camera footage for violations rather than require sworn officers to perform that work.
The package also seeks an optional authorization to permit certain localities to adopt…
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