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Lunenburg County supervisors set updated FY2024–25 budget proposal, recommend $5.77 million for schools amid warnings of tax increase
Summary
At a May 23 public hearing, the Lunenburg County Board of Supervisors proposed $5,765,372 for school funding in its updated FY2024–25 budget, outlined EMS and public-safety investments funded in part by ARPA, and warned that maintaining the same funding level in FY2025–26 could require an 11-cent real estate tax increase.
The Lunenburg County Board of Supervisors on May 23 continued its budget work session with a public hearing on the proposed FY2024–25 budget, moving an updated funding proposal to a decision at the board’s June meeting.
Supervisor T. Wayne Hoover, speaking for the Finance Committee, said the School Board had requested an increase of $1,120,918 based on an average daily membership (ADM) of 1,500 plus $100,000 in contingency. The board used the state-recommended ADM of 1,483 and proposed core school funding of $5,451,657; with a School Board request to apply $313,715 in carryover to the School Construction Fund, Hoover described an updated recommended total of $5,765,372 for schools in the FY2024–25 proposal.
Hoover outlined other budget…
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