CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Two days after the Charlottesville City Manager proposed a 2-cent real estate tax raise, City Councilor Lloyd Snook said he has an alternative plan. Snook plans to propose using funds from the surplus of the 2026 budget.
“I think we need to relax at least for this year the policy that says we don’t take our last year’s budget surplus and apply it to a budget shortfall in the coming year,” Snook said during an appearance on the Schilling Show.
That rule prevented City Manager Sam Sanders from balancing the budget using the surplus…