Fall is here along with crisp nights and beautiful falling leaves. The new school fiscal year, which began in July, brought new opportunities for the School Board and school administration to restore community trust. The first fiscal quarter of the...
The 2025-2026 School Budget Schedule has been published. Please note, there is a single Public Hearing scheduled for November 11th; your only chance to weigh in on the budget. (Public comments are generally limited to 3 minutes.) These dates are...
At the September 2024 Board of Supervisors meeting, the school report included a request for additional taxpayer funds of $567,881.62 to construct a playground at the elementary school to benefit our youngest community members. The elementary school playground first showed up...
A regular meeting was held on August 12, 2024. The agenda included reports on the first day of school, presentation on an endowment organization, financial reports (at 23:20). A review of actions from the closed meeting occurred at 2:43. The...
Ten Years and over $105,000,000 Million Northumberland taxpayer dollars later, we once again find ourselves staring at a School Board budget that asks for an ADDITIONAL $1,747,496 million dollars from the County. If this trend continues, within the next five...
A public hearing on the proposed Northumberland County School Board Budget is set for May 8, 2024 at 7 pm at Northumberland County Courts Building, 220 Judicial Place, Heathsville.This is your chance to weigh in with the Board of Supervisors...
The Board of Supervisors has scheduled a public work session on April 24, 2024 starting at 5:30pm at the Heathsville Courthouse. This is a single issue meeting to work through the SB Budget - the agenda is here: https://go.boarddocs.com/va/nuc/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=D4FSLC728330The BoS agenda...
Interested in seeing how your school board member is voting on issues affecting your children? Or if they are asking any questions on school finances? A Rumble video of the April 15, 2024 school board meeting is now available for...
The newly formed Joint Finance Committee, comprised of two County Supervisors, two School Board members and two citizen representatives chosen by each board met earlier this year to develop timelines and processes meant to streamline the overall School Board budget...
The School Board, Dr. Wargo and Ms. Booth presented a budget to the Board of Supervisors on February 29th that supposedly includes “efficiencies”. Only in government can you say that money you aren’t spending is a savings. I can find...