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Alexandria staff: Richmond budget adds $112.5M for housing trust fund, $2M for Freedom House; transportation and constitutional amendments advancing
Summary
City legislative staff reported a Richmond update: a school construction sales-tax bill is moving, two competing transportation funding packages are under consideration, four constitutional amendments cleared the General Assembly (one slated for an April 21 referendum), and the senate budget includes amendments directly affecting Alexandria including $112.5M for the Virginia Housing Trust Fund and $2M for the Freedom House Museum.
Wendy, Alexandria’s legislative staff, told the subcommittee she had just completed her first full week in Richmond and provided a multi-issue update focused on education, transit, constitutional amendments and budget impacts.
She said one House bill would raise the sales tax by 1 percentage point to fund school construction and had been reported out of subcommittee; Alexandria testified in support alongside the Alexandria City Public Schools lobbyist to address aging school facilities. On transportation funding she described two competing approaches: a broad revenue package that would modernize and expand the tax base to…
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